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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Hawaii's attorney general on Wednesday laid out a comprehensive timeline of the catastrophic Maui wildfires last year that killed 101 people, including details of flying embers carried by high winds, blinding, thick smoke and trapped first responders, all of which hampered efforts to combat the fires. The report, conducted by Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez and the Fire Safety Research Institute, used extensive data to show how a combination of environmental and geographical factors, along with preparedness and response conditions, enabled the fire to "rapidly intensify into an urban conflagration." |
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