How did Hawaii Fire start?
The whole situation started with a small fire in the forest. However, it’s still not known what exactly caused this Hawaii wildfire. The powerful winds fanning the flames were generated by Hurricane Dora, a storm that was moving across the Pacific Ocean.
Unfortunately, the firefighters couldn’t put out the fire in Hawaii. By Wednesday night, the fire started spreading really fast. The wind was so strong that it pushed the flames even more. The fire moved so quickly that a lot of people got scared. They had to jump into the sea to stay safe from the fire.
“The deadliest wildfire in more than a hundred years,” Mr. Biden said Tuesday at an event in Milwaukee. “A whole city destroyed. Generations of native Hawaiian history turned into ruin.”
The fires in Maui island of Hawaii are the most deadly in the United States in over 100 years, as stated by the National Fire Protection Association.
As of Friday, around 2,200 buildings and structures have been harmed or ruined, and about 2,170 acres of land have been burned. Six fires are currently ablaze on Hawaii’s Maui island and the Big Island, but authorities have shared that the Lahaina fire is now mostly controlled at 85%. Unfortunately, many of the town’s important old places have been destroyed.
Almost a week after the disaster, many people are still not found. Search teams have only looked in a small part of the affected area.
Buildings destroyed in Lahaina, Hawaii?
Many people who left their homes in Lahaina are staying in a safe place called an emergency shelter. More than 2,700 buildings have been destroyed by the fires, 86% of them residential. The town had around 12,000 people living there.
The fires are mostly under control now, but work is ongoing to completely put them out in certain places on the island.
What is the cause of the deadliest Hawaii wildfires?
Climate change is making wildfires more likely all around the world because it’s making the weather hotter and heatwaves stronger and longer.
He also mentioned that the problems caused by climate change are putting a lot of pressure on Hawaii.
“We have never experienced a wildfire that affected a city like this before,” Governor Josh Green said.
Hawaii Governor Josh has expressed concerns that the current death toll of 99 from the Lahaina fire might increase significantly, potentially even doubling or tripling.
