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...Maui county’s Mayor Richard Bissen confirmed on Wednesday morning that fires had killed six on the island. The number of homes and businesses damaged was as yet unknown....
...The Maui County government has also been criticised for not activating its warning siren system and its overall preparations and response....
...Late on Wednesday, Maui County officials confirmed that 36 fatalities had been discovered “amid the active Lahaina fire”....
...Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen confirmed on Wednesday morning that fires had killed six on the island, and the number of homes and businesses damaged was as yet unknown....
...The Maui County mayor’s office said on Thursday evening there were 55 confirmed deaths, up from 36 on Wednesday....
...The drop came as the death toll from the Maui fires reached 96, according to the latest update from county leaders, making it the deadliest US wildfire in modern history....
...Firefighters had contained one fire near southern Kihei in the island’s south-west, but continued to fight blazes in western Maui and inland, the Maui county government said in a statement published on Saturday...
...In 2020, Maui County filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Chevron and Exxon....
...US: President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Maui after wildfires tore through the Hawaiian island....
...Wildfires have ripped through Canada, southern Europe and, in recent days, the Hawaiian island of Maui....
...She notes that poor building works may have created structural weaknesses that were not detected by local county checks, which are not always thorough....
...The drama centres on the interactions between the hotel staff and the wealthy guests who have come to enjoy five-star treatment in Maui....
...Our family did, over and again to the Big Island (also to all the other Hawaiian islands, except Maui)....
...Mr Jacobs had foreseen the usefulness of phones for activities other than voice calls much earlier – while sitting on a beach in Maui, Hawaii, in the 1990s....
...In Briscoe County in Texas, Shell is developing a wind project with Luminant, a TXU subsidiary....
...Marriott, whose brands include Ritz-Carlton and Renaissance, said demand for timeshare resorts continues to be robust, particularly at its properties in Las Vegas, Maui, Phuket, and St Thomas....
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