The middle of the island, is about 70 contained, and officials are also dealing with a third fire in up country maui, with no estimate on its containment. In just over four days, the fires have burned roughly 2,000 acres and have destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. These are images from the Historic Town of lahaina, which was hardest hit. Local officials are allowing residents and tourists back into the town, but a nightly curfew is in place. We are now beginning to learn about the harrowing stories of survivors, like this one, where one family was forced to jump into the ocean to escape the flames. The ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. But, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. I said, were not going to die, and were here, were alive. An unprecedented logistical effort is underway from all over the United States as Government Agencies are mobilizing resources to send to hawaii. The States National guard has chartered planes to help fly First Responders and Emergency Crews
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are seeing across the country. hawaii is not unique when it comes to wildfires, when it comes to wildfires, when it comes to wildfires, when it comes to torrential storms coming out of nowhere in many cases. so this is going to be about how we put resources and support, change policies, so that we are both adaptive to climate change and we prevent this kind of massive loss of life, loss of property, from ever happening again anywhere else. . ~ ever happening again anywhere else. ., ,, , ., ever happening again anywhere else. ., ,, . ever happening again anywhere else. ., . ., else. thank you so much for “oininu else. thank you so much for joining us else. thank you so much for joining us during else. thank you so much for joining us during this - else. thank you so much for joining us during this time. | as we mentioned at the start of the programme, hawaii s historic former capital, lahaina, has been left in ruins after the wildfires swept through the historic town, burning down
things, so we know they will rise and stand firm and help each other s neighbours and get through this devastation and this tragedy that is occurring and i also know that hawaii will do the same, the other islands and other communities will stand up and help, so it s been amazing to see how many people and how many communities and also nations are sending their assistance, so i really believe that hawaii will rise and there will be resilience and there will be resilience and they will rise to the challenges. challenges. resilience certainly challenges. resilience certainly would - challenges. resilience certainly would be i challenges. resilience certainly would be the j challenges. resilience i certainly would be the word here. we wish you and your community the best, the adjunct professor at the university have way, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. the maui blaze moved faster. a