would cause these type of wildfires. reporter: while hurricane dora is hundreds of miles south of the hawaiian islands, the storm brought winds of up to 80 miles per hour to maui turning the tinder dry hillsides into a blow torch and catching hundreds of people between flames and the pacific ocean. nobody was prepared. reporter: sylvia luke issued an emergency proclamation and josh green is returning to the island tonight. he is cutting his trip to a week and that tells you the magnitude of how grave we think the situation is. reporter: thousands are in evacuation shelters and rescue operations are under way for both maui and the big island of hawaii where several other fires are burning as well. right now the priority is for saving lives, preventing human suffering and mitigating great property loss. everyone that i know, their homes have been burned down. are a high that is on fire.
how quickly the wildfires arrived at their homes. bill weir picks up the story. we never anticipated in this state that hurricane which did not make impact on our island will cause this type of wildfires. reporter: while hurricane dora is hundreds of miles south of the hawaiian islands, the storm brought winds of up to 80 miles per hour to maui turning the tinder dry hillsides into a blow torch and catching hundreds of people between flames and the pacific ocean. nobody was prepared. reporter: the lieutenant governor issued an emergency proclamation tuesday and the governor is returning to the state tonight. he is cutting his trip by a week and that tells you the magnitude of how grave we think the situation is. reporter: thousands are in evacuation shelters and rescue operations are under way for both maui and the big island of
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lightbulbs, more energy efficient and the same price as incandescent. jeffrey, they say the new bulb will last, they go out what the other wants to. the president don t even last four years. [laughter] they are coming after the stov stoves, everything. the gas stove because i like the danger, i like knowing my home could explode, i like that. it s not fun to cook a moral dread going on. i don t enjoy the safety of the electric stove. a bit you cook with a blow torch. i felt like 47 burner gas stove surrounded by claim morr morris. have to keep working on this, your gas stove, they are not going to sell a new one for they tried to ban it.
lightbulbs, more energy efficient and the same price as incandescent. jeffrey, they say the new bulb will last, they go out what the other wants to. the president don t even last four years. [laughter] they are coming after the stov stoves, everything. the gas stove because i like the danger, i like knowing my home could explode, i like that. it s not fun to cook a moral dread going on. i don t enjoy the safety of the electric stove. a bit you cook with a blow torch. i felt like 47 burner gas stove surrounded by claim morr morris. have to keep working on this, your gas stove, they are not going to sell a new one for they tried to ban it.