alerts. a brush fire in maui again forcing residents to evacuate yesterday. but, this time early sirens helped people get to safely quickly the fire was under control in a few hours. the island is still facing a long road ahead after the devastating fires earlier this month left at least 115 dead. a pastor from the island joined us earlier to talk about what he saw. and think what was happening in the middle of that chaos as there were so many things at play and nobody knew which one to actually focus on. that caused all of the confusion. it turned into the nightmare of what we are experiencing right now. and local support in the and emergency response for yesterday brushfire was handled much differently. part sirens went off everyone got alert on the from the television screens flashed a red warning very little of what happened. will and i are going to go off the wall here shortly and break down even more that.
washington post reported that just the other day. they stepped in and got rid of their power lines it is a suspicion that s what started the fire. this feels like three hours is a long time but it was contained three hours later that s a fast-moving fire considering all of this practice is contained at limited to brush in the fields above maui. they fought that fire that morning. i know guys were there they thought they had it contained. any firefighter notes contained and completely put out is totally different. it sparks up later in the des peres by 3:00 a.m. it flares back up. it rips through town, man. it rips through town. the second or one that really ripped through? lexus winds are shoving fire through town but it takes until 9:45 p.m. too. request a full day all things considered, they are in lahaina. the big discussion in the aftermath has been a water who controls it, was it deployed properly? talk to us about the developer versus the indigenous perspective.
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quickly. it s this number has been really difficult to pin down for a long time thankfully at number of names have come off the missing list but there still people missing piglets in thinker three and 38 that are missing. 2200 structures dammit there s only 3500 in lahaina parks 22 of 3500. more than half of the town for. two thirds of the town is gone and displaced all around west maui and all over maui. whether it s hawaiian electric, water, the officials that they had did not sound the alarms and sirens, there is so much that went wrong that day. with a fire backed by 80-mile an hour winds and people because of barricades down to the central per capita basically trapped in an oven for. other people to jump in the ocean to avoid the fires as well. amazing reporting, thanks for giving her i on this bright know for a fact he is still at work
impact he was on the ground for almost a week covering the aftermath of this. break us through the timeline how to break down? click to so complicate the cascading number of chaos, catastrophic things happen that day. there s a lot of questions people have left answered. there s been a ton of speculation to try to fill in the gaps of what we do and do not know. here is what is important but on the day before and the date of the fire there was incredibly high winds, 60, 70, 80 mile-per-hour winds everyone i ve spoken to that was there that day and lived their entire life sit on a precedent for a quick summons are not enough they are accelerant to it never started the fire there is conflicting reports about how, when, where indexers started too. about midnight fires break out in central maui that s not a lot to report on that 19 homes were lost because everyone focus on what happened in lahaina up at 6:00 a.m. that morning fire starts in lahaina but right now the best guess is it s a d