The blazes on the island are now the country’s worst in terms of casualties for over a century, while authorities have warned that the effort to find and identify the dead is still in its early stages, as crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3 per cent of the search area.
Hawaii death toll tops 93 as it becomes deadliest wildfire in US modern history
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/maui-fires-hawaii-wildfires-cause-b2392251.html
15 Comments
Zrybew@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 3y
Deadliest wildfire so far...
fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
Just want to clarify that I reading this right. They've now counted as many as 93 killed, and search crews have only covered 3% of the search area?!
cedarmesa@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 3y
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fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
That's awful. I saw the death toll rising, which is terrible in of itself. But to hear what it's climbed to and they've only covered 3%...that's devistating news!!
Unaware7013@kbin.social · 20 pts · 3y
And that says something, because the paradise fire wasn't that long ago...
quindraco@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
Given they were warned this would happen and did nothing to prevent it, and when it did happen they didn't competently warn anyone, I hope they take seriously the task of gearing up for this happening again.
cedarmesa@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
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ikidd@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
It seems like where that's all aiming. As far as the governments are concerned, that's a feature, not a bug.
ShooBoo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
You don't know what you are talking about.
unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
feecoomeeq@lemmy.world · -40 pts · 3y
starlinguk@kbin.social · 44 pts · 3y
It's not a competition.
blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social · 34 pts · 3y
The oppression and tragedy Olympics is probably the most tasteless thing you can fight about on the internet.
Kalkaline@programming.dev · 20 pts · 3y
feecoomeeq@lemmy.world · -33 pts · 3y
Because the media is creating it to be a cataclysm. Who cares..
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 3y
It's the deadliest wildfire in US history. It is no less tragic or newsworthy because other disasters have killed more.
Lininop@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 3y
Ah there's the whataboutisms. 🥇Here take your prize for being the most empathic person ever because you thought of something worse, congratulations!
Lmaydev@programming.dev · 8 pts · 3y
There being bigger tragedies doesn't lessen others. Especially not to the people involved.
That earthquake is nothing compared to world war 2 but that doesn't really mean anything does it.