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Significantly after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent John Sudworth reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. Theyre now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering, why was there no help sent from oahu . Pearl harbor is a 20 minute flight away, right . Why are the limited resources of police on this island left alone . Where is the support for them . Why are we taking supplies on a boat...

Are known to have died but hundreds still remain unaccounted for. Search teams are checking through the rubble of burned out buildings and vehicles. Many people were forced to run into the sea, to escape the flames. An official review has been ordered into whether residents were given sufficient warning about the fire. It appears some early sirens never sounded. There are also questions over the speed of the emergency response. From maui, heres john sudworth. Videos of the disaster continue to emerge. This one shows lahainas residents huddled in the water the only place of refuge they could fi...

Property, the world’s biggest asset class, is also its most vulnerable | Briefing

Summer break should be a chance to kick back and relax. For many travelers this year, it quickly descended into the kind of nightmares you need another break to recover from.

Environmental disasters, aviation industry mishaps and strikes, dirty beaches, soaring temperatures, deluges, price hikes and overcrowding all seem to have conspired to ruin getaways for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people this year. Here's a roundup of some of the adversity that vacationers have faced over the past few months.