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April 18, 2024

Report on Maui wildfire has 111 suggestions to prevent future tragedies

  • The report says the fire department was outmatched by the blazes that left 101 people dead.
    • By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, REBECCA BOONE and CLAUDIA LAUER
    Associated Press

    HONOLULU — When wildfires broke out across Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their engines. Another drove a moped into a burning neighborhood again and again, whisking people away from danger one at a time.

    But despite devoting nearly all the personnel and vehicles it had to the fight on Aug. 8, 2023, the Maui Fire Department was no match for an unprecedented series of blazes including one that killed 101 people in the historic town of Lahaina, according to a newly released report.


     
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