The governor of Hawaii has assured that the number of deaths from the fires that have devastated part of the archipelago in recent days, especially the island of maui, has risen to 99, figure that “will increase significantly”.
“The number of deaths will grow very significantly. We are studying all the figures,” the governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, told CNN, who has announced that this number could double in the next ten days.
In addition, he explained that the rescue teams have only been able to comb so far 25% from the town of Lahaina, the most affected by the fires.
Green has stated that efforts to find more disappearedwhose number is not yet clear, are being slow but steady due to the bad conditions, as in some areas the temperatures are still too high for the tracking dogs, who can only endure 15 minutes of work at a time.
The credit rating agency Moody’s Analytics has estimated the damage caused by the flames between 3,000 million and 7,500 million dollars (between 2,750 million and 6,800 million euros).
Of the three main fires registered in Maui, one has been 100% contained for days, while the other two are at 60 and 80%, according to the county. Some areas remain blocked off and Police Chief John Pelletier estimated over the weekend that there had barely been anyStreaked 3% of the calcined areas.
Parallel to the extinction and tracking work, the requests for accountability are also advancing, with some voices calling for clarification why the alert system did not work on time or if electrical wiring had something to do at the start of the firesfanned by hurricane force winds.
This tragedy is already considered deadliest natural disaster of recent Hawaiian history and the deadliest wave of fires in the United States in more than a century: in 1918, 453 people died in a series of fires in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Source: Lasexta

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