The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
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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
Bill weir is outfront. we never anticipated in this state that a hurricane, which did not make impact on our islands, 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 an hour to maui, turning the tinder-dry hillsides here into a blowtorch and catching hundreds of people between flames. the lieutenant governor issued an emergency proclamation tuesday, and governor josh green 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 underway for both maui and the big island of hawaii where several other fires are burning as well. right now the priority is for