Police who frantically tried to save people from the wildfire that devastated the historic Maui town of Lahaina this summer also faced another challenge: keeping people from heading back toward the flames
AUDREY McAVOY, REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON and CLAUDIA LAUERThis image provided by Maui Police Department shows police body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town on Aug. 8, 2023. Maui police held a news conference on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town. October 31, 2023 at 2:44 pm PDT, Hawaii, alerting people to the approaching inferno.
The roughly 20 hours of video depict the actions of Maui police officers on Aug. 8, when strong winds from a hurricane passing far to the south drove flames that quickly leveled Lahaina and killed at least 99 people. Authorities initially released 16 minutes of clips during a news conference Monday, before providing the rest to The Associated Press in response to a public records request.
A man on a motorcycle tried to skirt police cars blocking the road into town. Stuck in traffic, a dozen people got out to ask what they should do or if they could abandon their vehicles and walk into town. “Absolutely not,” an officer responded.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. It may have been sparked by downed power lines that ignited dry, invasive grasses. An APfound the answer may lie in an overgrown gully beneath Hawaiian Electric Co. power lines and something that harbored smoldering embers from an initial fire that burned in the morning and then rekindled in high winds that afternoon.
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