Eighty people were confirmed to have been killed by wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, according to officials, making it the deadliest natural disaster in the state’s history.
Deadly wildfires that swept with alarming speed and strength through the Hawaiian island of Maui reduced hundreds of homes to ash, sending emergency workers scrambling Saturday to find temporary housing for those lucky enough to survive a conflagration that has taken at least 80 lives.
The wildfires, which have claimed the lives of 67 individuals, have been declared the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the US state, , hawaii, jeff bezos, wild fires
Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane, a brush fire started on Maui on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, and took the island by surprise. It raced through parched growth and neighborhoods in the historic town of Lahaina leaving a trail of destruction.