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
hawaii so drastically? yeah, because if you have el nino, studies show then there is a better chance for more hurricanes to occur in the central north pacific, including hawaii regions, so this is no surprise to us. like, this year, we have injuly, we have had a tropical storm calvin and in august, we had a hurricane dora, which is pretty strong, so this is something that we always keep watching, these hurricane develop following el nino. there was around 90% less rainfall in hawaii recently than a century ago. really dry conditions. what s behind that? do those numbers strike you as out of the ordinary? yes, those numbers are really alarming.