Hawaii underestimated the deadly threat of wildfire

Hawaii officials released a report last year describing the risk of wildfires to human life with a single word: 'low.' A year and a half later, the catastrophic fires that engulfed Maui and the historic town of Lahaina this week have already become the state’s deadliest natural disaster in more than six decades.

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