Looking for answers – The Hawaii wildfires
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, has warned that the number killed will rise as only 25% of the affected area has been searched so far.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson hears from our US correspondent Martha Kelner, who is in Maui, about the devastation she's seen there and the questions being asked by locals about a sophisticated warning system that failed to alert them to the imminent danger.
Podcast producer: Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Social Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:03.8 | Welcome to The Daily with me Neil Patterson and today we return to Hawaii. A week of the worst |
| 1:09.5 | wildfires the US is seen in more than a century has left |
| 1:12.8 | vast swathes of Maui little more than ash. When viewed from the air, it's no longer an island |
| 1:18.3 | paradise. Instead, a patchwork of blackened, burnt out buildings more akin to a war-torn third-world |
| 1:24.6 | country than the first world Eden it once was. |
| 1:31.0 | On the ground, the search efforts continue. |
| 1:34.6 | Homes are marked with an orange X if they've been searched. |
| 1:38.7 | HR is etched on them if human remains have been found. |
| 1:42.2 | At the time of recording, 99 people are known to have died. |
| 1:44.6 | The true total is surely far higher. |
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