Green says hes ordering a comprehensive review of the states response, including why sirens didnt alert maui residents to the danger. Hawaiis Emergency Service Administration Says based on its records, no one at the state or county level attempted to activate the sirens. Our own reporter on the ground said that no one hes spoken to was alerted to the encroaching flames. More on that in just a few minutes. This image comes from the us coastguard, it shows the town burning through the height of the emergency. The burning through the height of the emergency. The emergency. The agency rescued 17 the emergency. The agency rescued 17 people the emergency. The agency rescued 17 people from the emergency. The agency rescued 17 people from the | rescued 17 people from the water and a0 people from the shoreline. Many more are still unaccounted for. Attem pts atte m pts to attempts to flee the devastation and fires were hampered. As flames were fanned by winds coming from hurricane dora. We are n
Much more stark. Residents are now for the first time being allowed to return as you can see from these dramatic shots. But they wont be able to stay, with a curfew coming into force at 10pm local time. Meanwhile, Hawaii Governor josh green says hes ordering a comprehensive review of the states response, including why sirens didnt alert maui residents to the danger. Hawaiis Emergency Service Administration Says based on its records, no one at the state or county level attempted to activate the sirens. Much has been made about the speed of the fires and just how Quickly Lahaina became engulfed on tuesday. Heres what we know so far about what happened. At 6 37 am local hawaiian time on tuesday, maui county reports that a brush fire began near lahaina. By 9 55, the county issued a statement on its website declaring that the Lahaina Brush Fire is 100 contained shortly before 09 00 today. then just under an hour later, another update said firefighters remained on the scenes of two fires o
On newsnight at 10 30pm another blow to the Prime Ministers so called small boats week, as migrants are taken off the Bibby Stockholm Barge after legionaires bacteria caused problems. How will the government reboot its Migrant Policy . Good evening. Hawaii is said to be facing the largest Natural Disaster in its history, after wildfires ripped through the land and destroyed most of the beach front town of lahaina. At least 55 people are known to have died but many are still missing. Just look at how the landscape has been ravaged. Whole roads and neighbourhoods have been blackened and flattened as hurricane strength winds fanned the deadly flames. The blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke. Heres our North America Correspondentjohn Sudworth reporting from maui. The town of lahaina, home to 12,000 people traced its history back centuries. All but wiped from existence in a few short hours. The intensity of the fire
Getting a better look at the scale of the damage. The Catastrophe Modelling Firm karen clark and Company Estimates the total area burned at about 2,200 acres. Roughly 1,000 buildings have destroyed. Attempts to flee the devasting and fast moving fires were hampered as flames were fanned by winds coming from hurricane dora. The devastating and fast moving fires. We are now learning the harrowing stories of survival like this familys, who was forced to flee into the ocean. 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. Some residents are now being allowed into destroyed areas. These pictures show residents and tourists waiting in traffic to return to the Historic Town of lahaina. For many, this will be the first time theyve been able to go home to see the damage for themselves. But a curfew is in place for the worst hit areas, and some remain closed entirely. 0ur correspondent John Sud
Know that there are several factors that have played a role. When we talk about wildfires, we tended to talk about wildfires, we tended to talk about wildfires, we tended to talk about three ingredients. We do know when it comes to whether, in hawaii, strong womens have fans the flames. Strong winds. Its red area represents severe drought in the structure and the orange areas moderate drought. They represent 14 of the state. These larger yellow areas are abnormally dry conditions. This sucks the moisture out of vegetation, which means in turn, these areas are more likely to catch fire. On top of all of this, scientists have recorded 90 less rainfall than a century ago. When you talk about a spark in fuel, scientists have also said that some parts of hawaii have grasses that are not native to the state and are far more flammable than some of the native plants they are. Couple that with those dry conditions, and it means those area are more likely to catch fire and spread. Hawaiis govern