The Hawaii wildfires.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Hawaii fires. On August 8, a series of deadly wildfires erupted on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The death toll has reached 114, with 850 people still missing and 85% of impacted areas in Maui searched.
The historic town of Lahaina has been completely destroyed, though several other areas of the island were also impacted. The fires are now the deadliest natural disaster in state history and the deadliest wildfires in modern U.S. history, surpassing 2018's Camp Fire in Paradise, California, which killed 85 people. An estimated $6 billion of damages has been done, with 3,000 homes and businesses destroyed or damaged.
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| 1:12.4 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the wildfires in Hawaii, what we know about them, what has happened so far, and what some people are blaming for how bad things have gone. Before we jump in, though, I need to give a quick correction for something that we had |
| 1:18.4 | in yesterday's podcast. At the end of the podcast in our numbers section, we mixed up a couple |
| 1:26.8 | percentages. We said that based on the numbers of some |
| 1:31.3 | polling we had looked at, the drop in percentage points in the belief among Republicans |
| 1:36.0 | was 20 percent, and that this was solid evidence, the support for the notion that the election |
| 1:41.3 | was stolen from January 2021 had gone down by about 20 |
| 1:45.8 | percentage points. And then there was sort of this parenthetical where we said 52% of 63% is 53% |
| 1:52.6 | and 75% of 71% is 33%. Anyway, we messed it up. We had the numbers backwards. The change was |
| 2:00.5 | still the same, but the |
| 2:01.5 | explanation wasn't right. So apologies for that. Also, we had a little typo that I think I read |
| 2:07.0 | wrong in the podcast where I mentioned mortgage rates being the highest they've been since |
| 2:11.4 | 2022, which obviously wouldn't be super newsworthy. That was a year ago. The real number was since 2002. So apologies |
| 2:20.1 | for that as well. This is our 89th correction entangles 213 week history and our first since |
| 2:26.9 | July 31st. We track corrections and place them at the top of the newsletter and podcasts in an |
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