{"id":419535,"date":"2023-08-13T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=419535"},"modified":"2023-08-13T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T05:51:14","slug":"maui-wildfires-deadliest-in-a-century-as-death-toll-hits-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/maui-wildfires-deadliest-in-a-century-as-death-toll-hits-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui wildfires deadliest in a century as death toll hits 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">KAHULUI, Hawaii, (SONNA) &#8211; The death toll from the Maui wildfires reached 89 on Saturday, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century &#8211; and the total is likely to rise in coming days as search teams with cadaver dogs continue sifting through the ruins of Lahaina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The scale of the damage came into sharper focus, four days after a fast-moving blaze leveled the historic resort town, obliterating buildings and melting cars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\">\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__t-spacing-single-three-quarters__2_moJ spacing-container__b-spacing-single-three-quarters__1fuBK spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\" data-testid=\"ResponsiveAdSlot\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__container__FEnoz ad-slot__fixed-height__6m70D\">\n<p>\u201cThe Department of the Attorney-General will be conducting a comprehensive review of critical decision-making and standing policies leading up to, during, and after the wildfires on Maui and Hawaii islands this week,\u201d the office of Attorney-General Anne Lopez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The fires have become the\u00a0deadliest natural disaster\u00a0in Hawaii\u2019s history, surpassing that of a tsunami that killed 61 people on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1960, a year after Hawaii joined the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Fuelled by dry conditions, hot temperatures and strong winds from a passing hurricane, at least three wildfires erupted on Maui this week, racing through parched brush covering the island.<\/p>\n<p>Maui County officials said in an online statement that firefighters continued to battle the blaze, which was not yet fully contained. Residents of Lahaina were being allowed to return home for the first time to assess the damage.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Agencies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAHULUI, Hawaii, (SONNA) &#8211; The death toll from the Maui wildfires reached 89 on Saturday, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century &#8211; and the total is likely to rise in coming days as search teams with cadaver dogs continue sifting through the ruins of Lahaina. The scale of the damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":419511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-419535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419536,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419535\/revisions\/419536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}