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For the Lahaina fire alone, the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimated that over 2,200 buildings had been destroyed, [5] [14] [15] overwhelmingly residential [16] [17] and including many historic landmarks in Lahaina. [18] [19] The damage caused by the fire has been estimated at nearly $6 billion.
The fires have caused widespread devastation in Lahaina, a beach resort city of about 13,000 people on northwestern Maui that was once a whaling center and the Hawaiian Kingdom's capital and now ...
Dry conditions combined with high winds and droughts contributed to the unprecedented fires
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - A fire engine arrived within five minutes of the first reports of a wildfire last August on the edge of Lahaina, the historic Hawaiian resort town, according to the ...
Zeke Kalua/County of Maui via AP. This photo provided by County of Maui shows fire and smoke filling the sky from wildfires on the intersection at Hokiokio Place and Lahaina Bypass in Maui, Hawaii ...
6:37 a.m.: Dora-fueled winds help create conditions for a 3-acre brush fire that breaks out in the area of Lahainaluna Road, east of the historic seaside town of Lahaina. 9 a.m.: The brush fire in ...
The fire that burnt Lahaina was 80 per cent contained by Thursday morning, Maui County said. ... How did the Hawaii wildfires start? Friday 11 August 2023 00:45, Ariana Baio.
In the days before the wildfire started on Aug. 8, temperatures in Lahaina simmered in the low 30s Celsius (high 80s Fahrenheit) — about average for the time of year. "Recent La Ninas have been ...