Hundreds of people are still unaccounted for days after wildfires broke out in Hawaii.
Helicopter pilot Richard Olsten has flown over Maui and told the BBC that even most of the boats in the harbour were burnt and had sunk."The main tourist area where all the shops and restaurants are, the historic front street - everything burnt to the ground."
The cost of rebuilding Maui has been estimated at $5.5bn , according to the Pacific Disaster Center and FEMA, which is coordinating the relief effort to Hawaii from Washington."We're going to do what we can to rebuild. And it'll be back and it'll be bigger and it'll be stronger than ever before." As well as receiving aid, people who end up at emergency shelters that have been set up are also able to scan QR codes on their phones to report that they are safe and to alert the authorities that someone they know is missing.
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