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
Hawaii where several other fires are burning as well. right now the priority is saving lives, preventing human suffering and mitigating great property loss. everyone i know in lahaina, their homes have burned down. reporter: in one of the hardest hit areas, the tourist mecca of lahaina, coast guard says it rescued 12 people who jumped into the ocean trying to escape the flames. officials say thousands are without power. the 911 emergency system has been down at times and hospitals are overwhelmed with burn patients. at least three in critical condition. it has turned very serious and very dire. reporter: most striking to so many residents, just how fast the flames spread. at one point we were sitting there feeling the wind shifting and i said to my friend, should we turn the radio on and see if things are getting bad. but i didn t get a text message. it was all just like word of