victor, when you see, when you truly take in the scope of the devastation in lahaina town. i was lucky enough to be there years ago when it was at its most charming and it s paradise. it s one of the most beautiful places. today it s unrecognizable. it looks like the set of a world war ii movie in the middle of front street there. everything, man made structurally, is blackened and charred and just melted. it smells. it reminds me of the smells i came across in paradise, california, after the record deadly fire in the united states happened there, because every petroleum product, the pipes, the plastic, fiberglass boats is melted into this soup now floating in the harbor there. and mostly you talk to some of the folks. i talked to the gentleman you just saw there, eddy garcia, a local farmer, he was cutting furiously a fire break on his farm to stop the flames the days
people. so many people on this island affected, even those who didn t maybe live in lahaina and work on the west side of the island, that s where most of the tourists come, so this will affect hundreds of people on this island. right now the campfire of 2018 in california which took 85 lives in paradise, california, is the deadliest in u.s. history. this probably will exceed that. they are worried that the number could reach into the hundreds because so many people were caught between this wall of flame and the pacific ocean. those who did try to evacuate were stuck on the road in bumper to bumper traffic there, many others we know went into the waves to try to find relief, spent hours there, others didn t survive either from smoke inhalation or taking by choppy waves. the wind was 60, 70 miles an hour. i talked to one farmer, eddie garcia, who had fought the flames himself, was trying to build a fire break on his farm when he saw a tornado which has
Panic gripped the patients, their family members and hospital staff as a fire broke out in the endoscopy room on the second floor of the old OPD building at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). No casualties were reported in the fire, the cause of which is still to be ascertained.