Josh Green, the governor of US state of Hawaii, warned in an interview on Monday that 10 to 20 more wildfire victims could be found per day as search crews continued to comb through scorched ruins on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
"There are more fatalities that will come," says the governor. "The fire was so hot that what we find is the tragic finding that you would imagine, as though a fire has come through and it's hard to recognize anybody."More than 2,200 structures were damaged or destroyed and 2,170 acres have burnedThis photo released by the County of Maui on Aug. 10, 2023 shows houses destroyed in a devastating wildfire on Maui Island, Hawaii, the United States.
Deadly wildfires have nearly completely destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, a popular tourist spot on Maui and once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii. It's home to around 13,000 residents. "There are more fatalities that will come," Green told the news outlet."The fire was so hot that what we find is the tragic finding that you would imagine, as though a fire has come through and it's hard to recognize anybody."
Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said at a news conference on Saturday that canines had searched only 3 percent of impacted areas.
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