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While the cause of the fire has not been determined, observers have pointed to downed power lines, sputtering fire hydrants, and emergency alarms that sat silent as factors that hampered the response to the deadly blaze.

The White House is weighing a trip by President Joe Biden to survey the Maui wildfire damage. While there’s no firm date, an administration official said active conversations are taking

Years of overuse by farms and cities, and the effects of drought worsened by climate change has meant much less water flows today through the Colorado River than in previous decades.

Farmers like me have always lived at the whim of Mother Nature. Agriculture is a risky business, and too much extreme weather — heat, frost, floods, severe storms, high winds

Worries that firefighters cant access an adequate supply of water to combat flames in Hawaii are rekindling a longstanding fight over stream diversions in Maui. The Hawaii Attorney Generals office

While the cause of the fire has not been determined, observers have pointed to downed power lines, sputtering fire hydrants, and emergency alarms that sat silent as factors that hampered the response to the deadly blaze.

Really stepped up to lower their fees, and the hotels have also stemmed up to provide lodging for our visitor. so i think we are doing a lot in order to provide the kind of support we need to be providing. but there will always be the call for more. and my hope and expectation is that all of that will come. >> experts warn that extreme disasters such as this one are only becoming more common because climate change is fueling stronger storms, hotter temperatures. >> yes. >> more widespread drough...

The airlines stepped up to limit their fees and the hotels have also stepped up to provide lodging for our visitors, so i think that we are doing a lot in order to provide the kind of support we need, to be providing, but there will always be the call for more, and my hope and expectation is that all of that will come. >> experts warn that extreme disasters such as this one are only becoming more common because climate change is fueling stronger storms, hotter temperatures. >> yes. >> more wides...

Severity of severe weather events. and secondly, although we took a big action on climate, the biggest action in the history of humankind last year, it is not enough. we need to keep. >> no. >> we need to keep our pedal to the metal -- address the climate crisis. that is not going to deal with wildfires next summer. that is not going to deal with droughts and floods next summer. weve also got to beef up our emergency management and disaster recovery. >> senator brian schatz, from the hawaiian is...

Well-prepared for hurricanes. weve he eva and volcanic eruptions. weve had a few wildfires, but nothing that attacked a town like this. so, it just wasnt in the realm of possibility that wildfires in west maui would essentially jump the highway and attack the town of lahaina within the matter of less than an hour. its really true. people had to make very quick choices to evacuate. some of them just directly into lahaina harbor with their families, five people hanging onto a surfboard waiting for...