Maui’s Top Emergency Officials Were Off Island When Wildfires Hit Lahaina ~ August 14, 2023

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Thousands of people have been left homeless by the wildfire that raced through a Hawaiian town, the state’s governor says. “We are going to need to house thousands of people,” Josh Green told reporters. “That will mean reaching out to all of our hotels and those in the community, to ask people to rent those extra rooms”