LIVE UPDATES: Hawaii wildfires • At least 36 people have died in fires in Maui, officials say • Lahaina, once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, has been destroyed • Maui is devastated, but rest of Hawaii is open, tourism chief says
More than 11,000 people have been evacuated from Maui since the devastating wildfires caused untold destruction on the island this week.
Some 600 people were staying at the airport overnight in anticipation of leaving on the first flight available, he said. More people would have left Maui, he said, but the main highway was closed due to the ferocity of the flames, though it has since reopened.Miguel Almaguer “I was the last one off the dock,” Dustin Johnson said. “When the firestorm came through,” he added, it “took everything with it.”
NBC News was able to reach this former tourist paradise turned fiery hellscape and see the destruction being wrought in real time. Deep orange flames and thick black smoke dominated this once-tropical idyll, where many people have lost everything.At least six people have been killed in the rapidly spreading flames, with first responders unable to reach some areas and authorities are fearful they will find more bodies among the rubble of destroyed buildings.
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