Local Authorities Say 80 of the Coastal Community is gone. From above, you can see even more of the broad stretch of destruction. Homes, businesses, cars have been destroyed. These pictures were about to show you will put all of that into perspective. These are before and after pictures from lahaina. At least 270 buildings entire neighbourhoods have been reduced to ash. The town was home to about 12,000 people. Lets Hearfrom One Man who made it to safety, but lost everything. I lose my home, all my papers too, everything. Thats only i can. I only have my wife, my son, and my car, i dont have time for the rest of my stuff. My passport or ids, anything. Fires like the one you see here consumed roads and exit points. Flames moved with such speed, that some tourists were forced to jump into the sea nearby and were left to tread water or cling to sea walls for long periods of time. Theyve been talking about their experience. The ocean almost sucked my kids away a few times. But yeah, here we are. We stuck together, we held on, thats, we are not going to die this way, no. But we are here, we are alive. The fires were at their most intense along the western coast of maui. But other areas have been affected. Authorities say the blaze around lahaina, is now about 80 contained. The pulehu fire, in the middle of the island, has been 70 contained. Officials are also keeping across a third fire, in upcountry maui. There are fires too on neigbouring big island. The governor of hawaii josh green has toured lahaina. He posted this update from what was the towns main road. Its extraordinary, it is tragically gone. We know that many people are suffering, the Fatality Numbers will climb somewhat today. Well have those numbers today. Everyone, love your neighbours, support them. Because this is devastating for my way. We probably have well over 1000 buildings that have been destroyed, many many hundreds of families have been displaced. In a matter of hours, us President Joe Biden approved the request for emergency support. In a statement, we also heard a little earlier from Vice President kamala harris. She was asked whether she or the president would visit maui heres her reply. We want to, obviously with most of these kinds of situations, do whatever is the best interest of the folks on the ground, we dont want to distract them from resources that need to go into the victims of this tragedy and of course the First Responders have to be able to focus on that issue and not worry about focusing on us. Thousands of locals have been forced to leave their homes. Queues of cars like these formed at the six Emergency Shelters set up across maui. At this location the war memorial you can see Air Mattresses have been donated. This was another Shelter Set Up it appears to be in a school hall. Locals have described losing their phone service, and being left without power. What you see here is a makeshift notice board, displaying offers of help and pleas for missing loved ones. A number of celebrities have homes on maui island, among them oprah winfrey. Shes been meeting residents, and helping with the relief effort. Its a little overwhelming you know. Its. But i, i am really so pleased to have so many people, you know, supporting, peoplejust bringing what they can. So i came earlierjust to see what people needed. And then went shopping because often, you know, you make donations of clothes or whatever, and its unbelievable to me. As we mentioned, the Island Of Maui is a popular tourist destination. Lahaina alone attracts two million visitors each year. More than 14,000 travellers moved to the local airport for evacuation. Many have been left to camp out in the terminal as they wait for a flight out. Some airlines have reduced the cost of flights, to help evacuees. One traveller described the scene he witnessed as he made his way to the airport. We left and we drove through. It looks like a war zone out there, really looks like somebody came along and just bombed the whole town. Its completely devastated, its burned down to the ground. It was. He sighs. We dont know what exactly sparked these particular fires. But lets look at what contributed to their spread and severity. Fires need three ingredients fuel like vegetation a spark, and winds to drive flames. Hawaiis been experiencing abnormally dry conditions. 14 of the state is in severe or moderate drought. Strong winds from hurricane dora, which passed the coast on tuesday, also helped fan flames. Maui itself was already under a Red Flag Alert high temperatures, low humidity and winds causing concerns about fire danger. Heres how one expert explained it. These conditions all lined up with sort of a classic fire weather situation. Itjust so happened that there was a technician during the high wind event, allowing a very fast spreading fire to burn into the community towards the coast. Haw community towards the coast. How Im Ortant Community towards the coast. How important warning community towards the coast. How important Warning Systems are for people and events like this, and he reports that in that one there were no alerts to the scissors sends for the flames. Citizens. No alerts to the scissors sends for the flames. Citizens. The flames. Citizens. What we know is that the flames. Citizens. What we know is that the the flames. Citizens. What we know is that the practice the flames. Citizens. What we know is that the practice in the flames. Citizens. What we know is that the practice in the i know is that the practice in the past and the early Warning Systems have been in place, some people responded. When it comes to preparedness and readiness with early Warning Systems. We work in many countries all over the world frequently hit by cyclones and hurricanes, floods and also sometimes wildfires. What we have learned is that talking about preparedness is one thing, the government being prepared and. What we are saying is government being prepared is one thing, and the Community Whether they are ready and prepared to something else. find prepared to something else. And whats the difference, whats the difference between governments and Community Preparedness . The difference between governments and Community Preparedness . Community preparedness . The most imortant Community Preparedness . The most important element Community Preparedness . The most important element is Community Preparedness . The most important element is everyone Community Preparedness . The most important element is everyone has l Community Preparedness . The most important element is everyone has a role to play when disaster is about to strike. It is absolutely important to have that mindset that safety comes first and press the warnings and and follow the instructions is equally important. We know it works very well in some places in some places it not so much. You can still have an Early Warning but that warning may not reach some Rural Communities and becomes more difficult. And so that is what, and our work for example, the programme by the public and the process, public in the past have been working with childrens in different parts of the world to prepare them for earthquakes, for hurricanes, and what we have learned is we can prepare them young and when they are young you ever one disaster, it will have an impact and how we saved lives and how we move people to safe places. So how we saved lives and how we move people to safe places. People to safe places. So talk to me a little bit about people to safe places. So talk to me a little bit about one can people to safe places. So talk to me a little bit about one can implementi a little bit about one can implement these kinds of measures so that next time Something Like this happens there is that element of being prepared whether its governmental or community. Its prepared whether its governmental or community or community. Its still a debate whether you or community. Its still a debate whether you can or community. Its still a debate whether you can stop or community. Its still a debate whether you can stop a or community. Its still a debate whether you can stop a storm i or community. Its still a debate i whether you can stop a storm from happening, cycling from happening, or avert forest fires. We can stop a disaster from or avert forest fires. We can stop a disasterfrom becoming or avert forest fires. We can stop a disaster from becoming a or avert forest fires. We can stop a disasterfrom becoming a crisis because we can save more lives through early Warning Systems. So what we have done is to understand what we have done is to understand what are the vulnerabilities in locations where people. For example it could be an area where floods are frequent if you look at we are getting for the floods, in the caribbean we are into the hurricane season. So the first thing is specific vulnerabilities and hazards. Preparing the communities and actually helping them to understand what would Early Warning look like and the other places we move them to safety it is important to recognise that people are children, and sometimes girls have a priority because they dont want such places to become locations where they get abused. So there are many factors we need to consider. That was Doctor Mooney Krishnan talking to me about whats happening in hawaii. As always you can go to the website if you want more information about the latest coming from the Island Of Maui and indeed other areas around hawaii. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. Lets look at some other stories making news. A scottish fugitive extradited from brazil has beenjailed for almost ten years for Serious Organised Crime and firearms offences. James white, originally from glasgow, pleaded guilty to money laundering, importing millions of pounds of drugs and possessing guns and explosives. He led one of scotlands most prolific organised crime groups. The 46 year old had been arrested in brazil, injune 2020 and was sent back to scotland last august. A Police Officer says he has made the devastating decision to leave Northern Ireland after accidental breaches of internal data revealed the identities of officers and staff. The Police Service of Northern Ireland mistakenly shared details about 10,000 of its employees on tuesday. Details of a second data breach from july then emerged. The officer said the data breach was the straw broke the camels back. The comedian, actor and former family fortunes presenter, les dennis is the 15th and final Celebrity Contestant to be announced for this years strictly come dancing. He willjoin others including former Tennis Player and broadcaster annabel croft, rip off youre live with bbc news. Being temporarily removed, thats because traces of Legionella Bacteria have been found in the barge � s water supply. Legionella can lead to a type of pneumonia called legionnaires disease. The government � s use of the barge has been controversial, mike easton now explains. The 39 migrants who were moved onto the barge in a blaze of publicity this week, are being quietly disembarked after Dangerous Levels of the beck purity were found in the vessel � s water system. Its only days since the Home Office Minister guaranteed the barge was safe. I absolutely assure you that this is a Safe Facility. In absolutely assure you that this is a Safe FacilitySafe Facility. In a statement the Home Office Safe facility. In a statement the Home Office Said we we re we were told that health, safety, security and fire checks had all been carried out. To add to the government � s problems, the small boat migrants detected yesterday were 755 the highest daily total this year. It pushes the 2023 total two 5826 this year. It pushes the 2023 total two 5826 15,826. The this year. It pushes the 2023 total two 5826 15,826. The overall two 5826 15,826. The overall number since the home office started counting Channel Crossings in 2018 has now topped more than 100,000. 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Week was supposed to hanging their heads in shame. Tiiiiii week was supposed to show hanging their heads in shame. Week was supposed to show up ministers getting to grips with migration and asylum, instead a barge in Portland Harbour loaded with immigrants. Mark easton bbc news. First of all your reaction to this latest twist in surrounding the bb stockholm. ,. , stockholm. Entirely predictable outcome from this. Stockholm. Entirely predictable outcome from this. Has stockholm. Entirely predictable i outcome from this. Has already stockholm. Entirely predictable outcome from this. Has already been worn from the nhs, health england, significant disease risk. Using this barge to place people. I think it was almost inevitable that we would see something, not this quickly, but it really shows how the government has forced this route far too fast. They tried to make it a pr stunt for this week. 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