“We will build back together,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Sunday, as the Maui wildfires' death toll rose to 96. “We will find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life to the best of our ability.”
, but Green said he expects the number to rise. He said 35 additional members of an Urban Search and Rescue team are arriving — along with 20 dogs to help pick through the rubble. In ordering the review, Green said, “There is a lot to share.
There is a lot of information that people want. And to that end, I’ve authorized a comprehensive review of what happened in the early hours of the fire and hours thereafter.” “We will build back together. We will find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life to the best of our ability.”Destroyed buildings and homes are pictured in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina. Green also gave new details about the fires that burned on Maui last Tuesday. He said one fire was deemed out — but “must not have been completely extinguished.” He said wind gusts were reported as high as 81 mph. The fire spread rapidly — traveling one mile every minute. He said combined with those winds and the 1,000-degree temperatures, “ultimately all the pictures you see will be easy to understand.” Green added, “that level of destruction in a fire hurricane — something new to us in this age of global warming — was the ultimate reason that so many people perished.”The devastating wildfire that tore though parts of Maui and destroyed much of Lahaina is the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Green said over the weekend that hundreds of people were still unaccounted for and he expected the number of dead to increase.“We want to brace people for that,” Green said. The governor added that the road to recovery would be a long one. “It’s going to be, in the short term, heartbreaking,” Green said. “In the long term, people are going to need mental health care services. In the very long term we’ll rebuild together.” Federal officials have provided search dogs to help assist efforts to recover fire victims, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said Saturday.Up to 4,500 displaced people are in need of shelter, according to a Maui County Facebook post citing the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Firefighting efforts continue Firefighting crews continue to work on extinguishing flare-ups in the Lahaina and Upcountry Maui fires, according to a County of Maui update on Saturday.Destroyed buildings are pictured in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina on Friday. As of Friday night, the fire that tore through Lahaina had been 85% contained, according to County of Maui officials.does not necessarily mean a fire is not raging on. Rather, it refers to the perimeter that fire crews were able to create around the fire to keep it from spreading. That means, even if a fire is 100% contained, it could still be burning. The Lahaina Fire in West Maui is estimated to have burned 2,170 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 2,200 structures. About 86% of the buildings that were exposed to the fire were residential, theIn Ka’anapali, also in West Maui, a small fire that was sparked on Friday and forced mass evacuations has been completely contained. But the brief flames disrupted plans to distribute fuel on Saturday that had been stored in the area, local officialsThe Pulehu wildfire in Central Maui above Kihei burned mostly on Haleakala Ranch lands. A few small “smokers” were visible from the air. On Friday, Attorney General Anne Lopez
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