Search crews are expected to find more bodies in coming days, but the operation still has a long way to go, officials said.
already defies imagination as scrutiny mounts over the cause – and the officials' response.
"No one has ever seen this that is alive today – not this size, not this number, not this volume," Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said on Wednesday . "And we're not done."The number of residents still unaccounted for is "probably still over 1,000," Hawaii Governor Josh Green told CNN. "Realise that the responders that are going out there are recovering their loved ones and members of their families," he said.
But between 2019 and 2022, Hawaiian Electric invested less than US$245,000 on wildfire-specific projects, citing regulatory filings, according toHawaiian Electric also didn't seek state approval to raise rates to pay for safety improvements until 2022, and the rate hike has yet to be approved, the Journal reported.The most destructive blaze, the 2,170-acre Lahaina fire, was 89 per cent contained as of Wednesday night, the County of Maui posted on Facebook.
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