Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said on Wednesday: “No one has ever seen this who is alive today – not this size, not this number, not this volume. And we’re not done.”
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will be travelling to Hawaii on August 21 to meet the survivors and review the recovery work after the heavy wildfires that have claimed over 100 lives.
The deadliest US wildfire which horrified the entire world, shows an increase in death toll to 106. According to Hawaii's governor, identifying the people killed in the Maui wildfires will be 'very difficult' and likely take weeks, reported CNN.
Following the deadliest US wildfire in Hawaii's Maui, a Hawaiian couple sued four power companies and accused them of ignoring weather warnings and not alerting as the fire killed at least 93 people, reported Fox News.
The Indian embassy in the US expressed its solidarity with the United States over the victims of wildfires in Hawaii, which resulted in the deaths of 80 people and multiple injuries.
The death toll from Hawaii's Maui wildfires surged to 80 as the search teams sift through the smoking blazes of Lahaina town. The officials are determined to find out how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort area with so little warning, reported Al Jazeera.
The UAE has expressed its sincere condolences and solidarity with the United States over the victims of wildfires in Hawaii, which resulted in multiple deaths and injuries, and caused significant damage.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday declared Hawaii wildfires a "major disaster" and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas impacted by the wildfires since August 8.