Tonight, hawaii s raging wildfires are now the deadliest natural disaster in state history. at least 80 lives lost on maui, and officials are confident that number will rise. the attorney general announcing a comprehensive review of maui s evacuation policies, including systems for notifying residents to get out during emergencies. notifications many here say they never received. it s been only four days since firestorms, fueled by hurricane-force winds, torched entire swaths of this island paradise. and the efforts to contain those wildfires still continuing. we re in the kula neighborhood already ravaged by fire. and you can see the water-dropping helicopters working around the clock to still put out hotspots. for many who ve fled the disaster zones, still an agonizing search for housing and supplies. did you guys get any alerts that a fire was coming towards your neighborhood? we didn t have any alerts about the fire. we just knew about the storm. whit: kevin campbell and his fi
Banyan tre e, the once peaceful island paradise now described as looking banya a war zone. this is our first timehis is coming back an ad like actually knowing that our house burned down, we haven t really knowactuallyn anything for the t couple of days because there s no information coming through. people lost everything. homes, jobs, their cars, some their pets. there s still people missing. celll towers and phone lines tha have been damaged in the fire. and communication is reallt haiy tough on maui s west side. temporary hotspots have stoodup up so people are able to get text messages out and in some places. but it s just been an agonizing couple of days for. f da people who haven t been ableys to contact their friends and loved ones on maui, max, gordon, fox, weather air force veteran bosco bay junior was in lahaina when this wildfire erupted. he tried to help battle the flames himself wa. now he s helping transport
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His home, scorching nearly every building on his street. as of this hour hundreds are presumed missing bodies being pulled from the ocean after people had no choice but to jump in to escape the flames. thousands are scrambling for safety. max gordon is on the ground in maui. max. you got it there. it s an island paradise that was turned into a hellscape the field behind me blackenned by the fire, the scent of smoke heavy in the air but good news this morning we saw rain roll through. much neededed needed for this scorched island. my gosh. look at the harbor. oh my gosh. long time residents here shock at what they saw, people here in maui have dealt with so much loss because of these fires at least 36 people dead, it s
It wouldn t surprise you in arizona and nevada but i always thought of hawaii as a lush area that would be easier to contain because of the moisture. am i wrong? yeah. that s a great question. now, of course, maui, you think of it as a lush island paradise but there had been a drought that s been ongoing for the past couple of months. things have been very dry here. so you take these dry conditions. there s low humidity on that day. and then you have these winds, 70, 80 miles per hour just whipping and you really created a perfect storm, a perfect firestorm. firefighters that i talk to who were battling the blaze said it did feel like they were battling one of these massive infernos that you see in california or in the american west. and, really, these firefighters were outnumbered in some cases. they didn t have a lot of support. they didn t have the vast numbers like you see in california with cal fire issuing these big responses. so it was just a stuff fire