[UPDATED] Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said that 53 people were killed in the devastating Maui wildfires, and the death toll will likely continue to rise. | AP
“Lahaina, with a few rare exceptions, has been burned down,” the governor told The Associated Press.
The wildfires took most of Lahaina’s residents and visitors by surprise when they broke out late on Tuesday, forcing some to run for their lives and jump into the ocean to escape the fast-moving inferno.Nicoangelo Knickerbocker, a 21-year-old resident of Lahaina, had just awoken from a nap on Tuesday evening when he saw the fires burning through his hometown.
Most of the roughly 400 evacuees at the War Memorial shelter on Thursday morning had arrived in shock, with an “empty look,” said Dr. Gerald Tariao Montano, a pediatrician who volunteered to work a six-hour shift on Wednesday night.
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