LAHAINA, Hawaii — Hawaii officials urged tourists to avoid traveling to Maui as many hotels prepared to house evacuees and first responders on the island, which faces a long recovery from the wildfire that demolished a historic town and killed more than 90 people.
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National Guard personnel direct traffic away from wildfire-damaged areas Sunday in Lahaina, Hawaii.
About 46,000 residents and visitors have flown out of Kahului Airport in West Maui since the devastation in Lahaina became clear Wednesday, according to the Hawaii Tourism Authority.
"In the weeks ahead, the collective resources and attention of the federal, state and county government, the West Maui community, and the travel industry must be focused on the recovery of residents who were forced to evacuate their homes and businesses," the agency said in a statement late Saturday. Tourists were encouraged to visit Hawaii's other islands.
Gov. Josh Green said 500 hotels rooms will be made available for locals who have been displaced. An additional 500 hotel rooms will be set aside for workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some hotels will carry on with normal business to help preserve jobs and sustain the local economy, Green said.
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The state wants to work with AirBNB to make sure that rental homes can be made available for locals. Green hopes that the company will be able to provide three- to nine-month rentals for those who have lost homes.
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An owl sits in a burnt tree Saturday in Lahaina, Hawaii.
As the death toll around Lahaina climbed to 93, authorities warned that the effort to find and identify the dead was still in its early stages. The blaze is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
Crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3% of the search area, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said Saturday.
“We’ve got an area that we have to contain that is at least 5 square miles, and it is full of our loved ones,” he said, noting that the number of dead is likely to grow and “none of us really know the size of it yet.”
He spoke as federal emergency workers picked through the ashen moonscape left by the fire that razed the centuries-old town of Lahaina. Teams marked the ruins of homes with a bright orange “X” to indicate an initial search, and “HR” when they found human remains.
Lylas Kanemoto is awaiting word about the fate of her cousin, Glen Yoshino.
“I’m afraid he is gone because we have not heard from him, and he would’ve found a way to contact family. We are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst,” Kanemoto said Sunday. Family members will submit DNA to help identify any remains.
The family was grieving the death of four other relatives. The remains of Faaso and Malui Fonua Tone, their daughter, Salote Takafua, and her son, Tony Takafua, were found inside a charred car.
“At least we have closure for them, but the loss and heartbreak is unbearable for many,” Kanemoto said.
During the search efforts, the barks of cadaver dogs alerting their handlers to potential remains echoed over the hot, colorless landscape.
“It will certainly be the worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced,” Green said as he toured the devastation on historic Front Street. "We can only wait and support those who are living. Our focus now is to reunite people when we can and get them housing and get them health care, and then turn to rebuilding.”
At least 2,200 buildings were damaged or destroyed in West Maui, Green said, nearly all of them residential. Across the island, damage was estimated at close to $6 billion.
At least two other fires have been burning on Maui: in south Maui’s Kihei area and in the mountainous, inland communities known as Upcountry. No fatalities have been reported from those blazes.
The Upcountry fire affected 544 structures, most of them homes, Green said.
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Donated clothes are gathered in a parking lot Sunday in Lahaina, Hawaii, following wildfires that caused heavy damage.
As many as 4,500 people are in need of shelter, county officials said on Facebook, citing figures from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pacific Disaster Center.
The latest death toll surpassed that of the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California, which left 85 dead and destroyed the town of Paradise. A century earlier, the 1918 Cloquet Fire broke out in drought-stricken northern Minnesota and raced through rural communities, destroying thousands of homes and killing hundreds.
The cause of the wildfires is under investigation. The fires are Hawaii's deadliest natural disaster in decades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people. An even deadlier tsunami in 1946, which killed more than 150 on the Big Island, prompted development of a territory-wide emergency alert system with sirens that are tested monthly.
Hawaii emergency management records do not indicate that the warning sirens sounded before fire hit the town. Officials sent alerts to mobile phones, televisions and radio stations, but widespread power and cellular outages may have limited their reach.
Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane, the wildfires on Maui raced through parched brush covering the island.
“It outpaced anything firefighters could have done in the early hours,” U.S. Fire Administrator Lori Moore-Merrell said.
The most serious blaze swept into Lahaina on Tuesday and destroyed nearly every building in the town of 13,000, leaving a grid of gray rubble wedged between the blue ocean and lush green slopes.
Maui water officials warned Lahaina and Kula residents not to drink running water, which may be contaminated even after boiling, and to only take short, lukewarm showers in well-ventilated rooms to avoid possible chemical vapor exposure.
Maui’s firefighting efforts may have been hampered by limited staff and equipment.
Bobby Lee, president of the Hawaii Firefighters Association, said there are no more than 65 county firefighters working at any given time, who are responsible for three islands: Maui, Molokai and Lanai.
Lahaina resident Riley Curran said he doubted that county officials could have done more, given the speed of the flames. He fled his Front Street home after seeing the oncoming fire from the roof of a neighboring building.
“It’s not that people didn’t try to do anything," Curran said. “The fire went from zero to 100.”
Photos show Lahaina before and after wildfire devastation
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This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of southern Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, on June 25, left, and an overview of the same area on Wednesday, following a wildfire that tore through the heart of the Hawaiian island. The search of the wildfire wreckage Thursday on Maui revealed a wasteland of burned homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze that has already claimed 53 lives, making it the deadliest in the U.S. in five years.
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This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Banyan Court in Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, on June 25, top, and an overview of the same area on Wednesday, following a wildfire that tore through the heart of the Hawaiian island. The flames left some people with mere minutes to act and led some to flee into the ocean.
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This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, on June 25, left, and an overview of the same area on Wednesday.
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This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Lahaina Square on Maui, Hawaii, on June 25, left, and an overview of the same area on Wednesday.
![APTOPIX Hawaii Fires](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=150%2C100 150w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=200%2C133 200w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=225%2C150 225w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=400%2C267 400w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=540%2C360 540w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=640%2C427 640w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=750%2C500 750w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=990%2C660 990w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=1035%2C690 1035w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800 1200w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=1333%2C888 1333w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=1476%2C984 1476w, https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/fremonttribune.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/50/8504ebf5-658e-5195-b8fd-7990d2af97e1/64d53ddd373dd.image.jpg?resize=1763%2C1175 2008w)
Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday in Lahaina, Hawaii, where a deadly wildfire that killed at least 53 people left a wasteland of burned-out homes and obliterated communities.
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Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday in Lahaina, Hawaii. Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen Jr. said the island had “been tested like never before in our lifetime.” “We are grieving with each other during this inconsolable time,” he said in a recorded statement. “In the days ahead, we will be stronger as a ‘kaiaulu,’ or community, as we rebuild with resilience and aloha.”
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Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday in Lahaina, Hawaii. Mauro Farinelli, of Lahaina, said the winds started blowing hard on Tuesday, and then somehow a fire started up on a hillside. “It just ripped through everything with amazing speed,” he said, adding it was “like a blowtorch.”
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Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday in Lahaina, Hawaii. Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane, the deadly fire started Tuesday and took the island by surprise, racing through parched growth and neighborhoods in the historic town of Lahaina, a tourist destination that dates to the 1700s and is the biggest community on the island's west side.