Lahaina is now contained. The pulehu fire, in the middle of the island, is about 70 contained. And officials are also dealing with a third fire in upcountry maui, with no estimate on its containment. In just over four days, the fires have burned roughly 2,000 acres, and have destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. These are images from the Historic Town of lahaina, which was hardest hit. Local officials are allowing residents and tourists back into the town, but a nightly curfew is in place. We are now beginning to learn about the harrowing stories of survivors like this one, where one family was forced tojump into the ocean to escape the flames. The ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. But, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. I said, were not going to die, and were here, were alive. An unprecedented logistical effort is under way from all over the united states, as Government Agencies are mobilising resources to send to hawaii. The States National guard has chartered planes to
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are seeing across the country. hawaii is not unique when it comes to wildfires, when it comes to wildfires, when it comes to wildfires, when it comes to torrential storms coming out of nowhere in many cases. so this is going to be about how we put resources and support, change policies, so that we are both adaptive to climate change and we prevent this kind of massive loss of life, loss of property, from ever happening again anywhere else. . ~ ever happening again anywhere else. ., ,, , ., ever happening again anywhere else. ., ,, . ever happening again anywhere else. ., . ., else. thank you so much for “oininu else. thank you so much for joining us else. thank you so much for joining us during else. thank you so much for joining us during this - else. thank you so much for joining us during this time. | as we mentioned at the start of the programme, hawaii s historic former capital, lahaina, has been left in ruins after the wildfires swept through the historic town, burning down