A terrifying wildfire that left a historic Hawaiian town in charred ruins has killed at least 53 people, authorities said Thursday, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state's history.
High winds fueled Bushfires on Maui island which engulfed the town of Lahaina.A terrifying wildfire that left a historic Hawaiian town in charred ruins has killed at least 53 people, authorities said on Thursday, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state's history.
"It was really hard to see," he said, teary-eyed."You feel so bad for people. They lost their homes, their lives, their livelihoods."The fires follow other extreme weather events in North America this summer, with record-breaking wildfires still burning across Canada and a major heat wave baking the US southwest.
Pictures taken by an AFP photographer who flew over Lahaina showed it had been reduced to blackened, smoking ruins. Kirksey said helicopter pilots struggled to see because of dense smoke, but that a Coast Guard vessel had been able to rescue more than 50 people from the water.
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