Hawaii fires death toll rises to 67 – as it happened
by Adam Fulton and (earlier) Abené Clayton, Sam Levi from World news | The Guardian on (#6DRDM)
Governor says it's too early to tell if Maui's emergency siren system failed; Lahaina subject to 10pm-6am curfew and thousands still without power. This blog is now closed
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CNN's chief climate correspondent, Bill Weir, has visited stricken Lahaina, and had this to say:
It looks like a bomb went off in Lahaina town. All the iconic buildings are either flattened or just scorched skeletons of their former self. Flames came so fast, entire structures went up in a matter of minutes. Anything in the town center here is just completely devastated. The fire was so hot, it burned everything all the way to the ground. [It's] just lifeless, smoky, and sooty devastation where Lahaina town used to be.
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