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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(HONOLULU) The father of a woman who died in Maui s wildfires has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Maui County and the state of Hawaii accusing them of negligence and wrongful conduct in allowing the fires to ignite or spread without being contained or suppressed.
Harold Dennis Wells 57-year-old daughter, Rebecca Rans, died in the Lahaina fire, according to a suit filed Monday.
Rans was killed trying to escape the fires on Aug. 8. Rans and her long-term boyfriend, Doug Gloege, were found burned to death a few blocks from her house, according to court filings.
Defendants named in the suit also include Maui Electric Company, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaiian Electric Industries and Kamehameha Schools, formerly known as the Bernice Pauahi Bishop estate a charitable foundation that owns large areas of land in the state.
In the suit, Wells alleges that Maui has continued to get drier and hotter for years and there was a spread of non-native flam
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