have had a0 more. further, we have had three cutters, to aircraft multiple boats, divers and specialised teams deployed across the coastguard to support the incident and we understand that lahaina harbour is the lifeblood of lahaina. the restoration of this harbour will impact the economy and the well being of the community. we continue to work with our government and industry partners to expedite this process so that we can restore the waterway for use. the coastguard is committed to the safety of the public and of our responders and our members remain steadfast in our response efforts to help lahaina, to help the lahaina community recover. thank you. mahalo. at this time. isabella, administrator of the small business administration. aloha.
fire entail, we can tell you that at first observation today, as we walked through lahaina, it was a very fast moving bar, it was a low to the ground fire, it was grass fed by all evidence that we could observe today, moving at a horizontal nature, low to the ground and structure to structure. incredibly fast, it outpaced anything the firefighters could have done in the early hours. with that, i can tell you the firefighters need to be commended, heroic actions, absolutely the stories we are hearing, i have been in communication with the chief since the very beginning and talked with some firefighters today and beginning to hear the stories which we will continue to hear over time. the unfortunate part is that since 2017 the us has experienced the top ten fires, wildfires in our nation. this now has superseded the campfire from 2018 that was the campfire from 2018 that was the deadliest, this fire now
ojala because it s going to be in the short term heartbreaking in the short term heartbreaking in the short term heartbreaking in the long term people are going to need mental healthcare services and in the very long term we rebuild together like an ohana. long-term we rebuild together like an ohana. like an ohana. that s josh green there, like an ohana. that s josh green there, speaking - like an ohana. that s josh green there, speaking at - like an ohana. that s joshi green there, speaking at the end of the press conference today and we want to end the programme with some pictures coming in of the governor touring the affected areas of lahaina, some absolutely la haina, some absolutely impactful lahaina, some absolutely impactful images here really because some of the first pictures of the devastation within lahaina and we will continue to follow that developing story in hawaii and maui as we get it but again, the death toll rising to 89 people. that s the latest we r
activated state of the arts system. now it s all the time for accountability but urgency they re bringing in more national guard, why? i m downtown lahaina we are looking at 2700 buildings that have been destroyed or damaged in a five square-mile area. saturday cadaver dogs it only covered about 3% of that area. of the 93 victims we have only identified two. number of victims is going to go up based on the experience we have in california at the campfire, some 85 died there. some of these who are unaccounted for it will remain missing forever because the remains will not be identified. the things we are finding is through a fire that melted metal. we have to do rapid dna to identify them. every one of these 89 are jon and jane do.
needs to be deployed to surround, wrap their arms around this community, let them know, hey, we re here for you, we care for you. will: yeah, it s hard to fathom, joey, the number of government resources that are not far away. you see the devastation on your screens, i have friends who are running their boats with supplies back to lahaina. hey, tulsi, i know right now is a recovery period, and i don t mean to make a lot of this, my mom is still there between lahaina and ka anapali, and there will be plenty of time for this, an after-action report, but you have such unique insight, rfk jr. with tweeted this yesterday, and it matched up with something that is my personal experience. i grew up, the hills are full of pineapple plantations, they turned hem into sugarcane fields, and then they went fallow. rfk jr. brought this up as horrible land management is part of what led to this ability for the entire island to catch on fire. what are your thoughts on something like that, how this got