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The authorities in Hawaii (USA) expect that the number of deaths from fires that have devastated the island increase as the rescue efforts progress, in what is already described as the worst disaster in the history of the state.
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Defense Department spokesman Hawaii, jeff hickmanhe said this Monday to the chain nbc that only 3% of the search work has been completed and that rescuers are now going “street by street”so the death toll, which already stands at 96, is likely to rise.
emergency personnel “is now inspecting every block and every car and soon they will start breaking into buildings”stressed the spokesman.
The governor of the state, Josh Greenpointed out that in the town of lahainaon the island of Mauithe main one affected by the fire, the situation is “heartbreaking”.
fires stressed Green In a video posted to their Instagram account Sunday night, they have destroyed lahaina.
“there is very little left” of the town, said the governor and specified that more than 27,000 structures were destroyed in the area, leaving losses of an estimated value of 5.6 million dollars.
Green He also stressed that as the rescue efforts progress, which have the help of 20 dogs and personnel from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), will increase the total number of deaths.
FEMA and the Pacific Disaster Center (CDPfor its acronym in English) estimated this Saturday that rebuilding lahaina It will cost at least $5.52 billion.
There are already 96 people killed in the fires that have devastated the island of Maui during the last week, in which it has become the most dramatic fire by the number of victims in USA in the last century
Hundreds of people are still missing, although in many areas there is no electricity nor mobile coverage to contact them, and their family and friends have mobilized on social networks asking for help to find them.
Although the authorities are being cautious when it comes to giving a figure, the head of the maui police estimated last Thursday at about 1,000 people the number of disappeared, people who until now had not been located by their relatives, a figure that has not been updated again.
Source: Elcomercio
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