This story has been updated with comments from a FEMA spokesperson regarding a reported damage estimate for the Lahaina fire.
Firefighters have made some progress in containing the blazes, which have killed at least 80 people and leveled entire communities, but officials warn they do not know exactly how many people are still missing after wildfires earlier this week began eating through neighborhoods in western Maui. The blazes, fanned by powerful winds from Hurricane Dora hundreds of miles offshore, have become the deadliest natural disaster in Hawaii since statehood in 1959.
issued a statement later Saturday saying the figure is not accurate and that it is still too early to determine the cost of rebuilding. “The $5.5B figure being reported by some media outlets, and cited to the Pacific Disaster Center, is not a dollar amount from spokesperson. The
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