Hawaii
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PublishedNovember 8, 2023
Hawaii governor announces $150 million fund for Maui wildfire victims modeled after 9/11 fund
Beneficiaries will receive payments of more than $1 million as early as next year, the governor's office said in a news release.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2023
Residents prepare to return to sites of homes demolished in Lahaina wildfire 7 weeks ago
Authorities will begin allowing the first residents and property owners to return to their properties in the burn zone, many for the first time since it was demolished by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2023
Unclear how many lost lives in Hawaii as authorities near the end of their search
Three weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, it is unclear how many people perished and how many are still missing.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2023
Insight: One thing we know about the Maui wildfires: Those most responsible won’t pay a cent
And it’s you and I and the struggling citizens of Maui who are left to pick up the ever-mounting bill for climate disasters. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2023
Schools reopening, traffic moving again in signs of recovery from Maui fires that killed 110
Communication on Maui remained difficult Wednesday. Some people walked periodically to a seawall, where phone connections were strongest, to make calls.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2023
Mobile morgue arrives to assist in identification of 101 confirmed dead in Maui wildfires
A week after a blaze tore through historic Lahaina, many survivors started moving into hundreds of hotel rooms set aside for displaced locals while donations of food, ice, water and other essentials poured in.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2023
Maui residents had moments to make life-or-death choices
As the Maui wildfire approached, residents of Lahaina were on their own, with their families and neighbors, to choose whether to stay or to run, and where to run to.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2023
Hawaii’s governor warns scores more could be dead following wildfires on Maui
The blazes that consumed most of the historic town of Lahaina, are already the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, with a death toll of at least 96.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2023
Chaos and terror: Failed communications left Maui residents trapped by fire; scores died
Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane, the fire started Tuesday and took Maui by surprise.