This pilot, hovering above a swimming pool, now being used to douse the flames further down the hill. These homes, some distance from the destroyed coastal town of lahaina, are in the centre of the island where, last week, just before the fires, the cameras at this Bird Sanctuary captured a bright flash. Staff believe it is a tree falling on a powerline. Shortly afterwards, flames can be seen in the forest. Ross hart saw something similar before his home burned down. We could hear some trees falling here and there in the distance. One big one fell here on the bridge and it knocked over the powerlines. And then you saw the house. You could see it burn . I saw it begin to burn and they wouldnt let me stay to watch it. They were dragging me out because the embers were starting to come over my truck and stuff. Questions are now being asked about whether lives might have been saved. Should mauis power grid have been turned off . Could more have been done to Sound The Alarm . For many of tho
Have been able to flee these fires. bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happen and how you are coping. i am now in a small village called fort simpson, 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. it sounds like a huge distance but it really isn t. this place is twice the size of france. this is essentially free communities to the left of yellowknife. you can hear a flight plane into the distance. this is a mackenzy river behind me. the writing has been under the walford days that fire would pose a great friend. has been in the writing for days. covering the northwest
It s got 16,000 people in it so vast scales that we re talking about. this is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. you can just hear a float plane into the distance, by the way. this is the mackenzy river behind me. yellowknife under a full evacuation order, as you probably heard, yesterday. we came out here a day before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. what were you seeing that led you to think, hey, i better get out of here even a day before the official evacuation order takes place? i m the editor of cabin radio, a website covering the northwest territories, and we did an interview with a gentleman named john valiant who spent seven years studying wildfires in fort mcmurray and he described to me how authorities