Emergency workers with axes and cadaver dogs are marking the ruins of Maui homes with a bright orange X for an initial search and HR when they find human remains.
The death toll continues to rise in the wake of the Hawaii wildfires, as many are still considered missing. Tracy Bennett, the Maui Film Commissioner joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to discuss the situation in Lahaina.has killed at least 89 people, authorities said Saturday, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire of the past century.
Dogs worked the rubble, and their occasional bark — used to alert their handlers to a possible corpse — echoed over the hot and colorless landscape. At least two other fires have been burning in Maui, with no fatalities reported thus far: in south Maui’s Kihei area and in the mountainous, inland communities known as Upcountry. A fourth broke out Friday evening in Kaanapali, a coastal community in West Maui north of Lahaina, but crews were able to extinguish it, authorities said.4 family members die in Hawaii wildfire: ‘It’s like a gut punch’
Retired fire captain Geoff Bogar and his friend of 35 years, Franklin Trejos, initially stayed behind to help others in Lahaina and save Bogar’s house. But as the flames moved closer and closer Tuesday afternoon, they knew they had to get out. Each escaped to his own car. When Bogar’s wouldn’t start, he broke through a window to get out, then crawled on the ground until a police patrol found him and brought him to a hospital.
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