Maui's Deadly Firestorm

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FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE investigates the deadliest American wildfire in a century, and the missed warnings that made it so unstoppable. The documentary examines the fire’s causes, the chaotic response, and how changes to the climate and landscape have made Maui increasingly vulnerable to fires.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.7	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.2	Right now, here is the audio cast of Maui's Deadly Firestorm.
0:51.6	Music storm. The Not long after a devastating fire reduced much of the Hawaiian town of Lahaina to ashes.
0:55.0	The community came together in a unity march.
1:14.8	We ask for your continued love to be with each one and be in safety and all that we do. As we guide through, let the hearts of those that have passed be in our spirit, be in our souls, as we continue to show our aloha to all of them and to one another.
1:24.9	More than 100 lives had been lost.
1:32.3	Thousands displaced.
1:36.3	Right now, Lahaina City is a great yard.
1:40.3	What happened to beautiful Lah line to our community?
1:49.0	The tension is rising. Local officials are being pressed harder than ever before.
1:54.0	The remembrance took place amid lawsuits and investigations related to the cause of the fire
2:00.0	and a chaotic emergency response.
2:02.6	If you've been the worst mayor we could possibly imagine.
2:05.6	We were not getting real-time information.
2:07.6	You gotta go!
2:09.6	There was nothing to indicate what was going to happen
2:13.6	based on the knowledge that we had.
2:18.3	Since the fire in August 23, a picture has been emerging of critical failures that day,
2:25.3	and in the years leading up to it.
2:27.3	I think it's convenient to feel that when something bad happens, there was nothing we could
2:33.3	have done to prevent it.
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