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Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Holiness2100: 10:05am On Aug 13, 2023

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HAWAII WILDFIRES: Governor says death toll in Lahaina is expected to rise after ‘worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced’

At least 89 people have died in the fire that consumed the historic town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui, governor Josh Green has said, making it the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century and with the toll expected to rise.

“It’s an impossible day,” governor Josh Green told reporters on Saturday after viewing the devastation. Earlier, he said operations were now centered on “the loss of life”.

The fire would “certainly be the worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced,” he said. “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 a press conference later he repeated his warning that the death toll would rise. Dogs trained to detect bodies have covered only 3% of the search area, Maui county police chief John Pelletier said.

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. And we’ve got 89 so far. Today we identified two,” Pelletier said, adding that “none of us really know the size of [the death toll] yet.”

The newly released figure surpassed the toll 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 destroyed thousands of homes and killed 453 people in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The cost to rebuild Lahaina was estimated at $5.5bn, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), with more than 2,200 structures damaged or destroyed and more than 2,100 acres (850 hectares) burned.

Officials have secured 1,000 hotel rooms for people who lost their homes and are arranging for rental properties to serve as housing at no cost to families, Green said. More than 1,400 people had been taken in at emergency shelters.

The fire reduced hundreds of homes to ash, sending emergency workers scrambling Saturday to find temporary housing for those lucky enough to survive. Communications were still difficult, with 30 cell towers still offline. Power outages were expected to last several weeks on the western side
Those who escaped mourned those who didn’t make it.


Retired fire captain Geoff Bogar and his friend of 35 years, Franklin Trejos, initially stayed behind to help others in Lahaina and save Bogar’s house. But as the flames moved closer and closer Tuesday afternoon, they knew they had to get out. Each escaped to his own car. When Bogar’s wouldn’t start, he broke through a window to get out, then crawled on the ground until a police patrol found him and brought him to a hospital.

Trejos wasn’t as lucky. When Bogar returned the next day, he found the bones of his 68-year-old friend in the back seat of his car, lying on top of the remains of the Bogars’ beloved 3-year-old golden retriever Sam, whom he had tried to protect.


Bill Wyland, who lives on the island of Oahu but owns an art gallery on Lahaina’s historic Front Street, fled on his Harley-Davidson.

Riding in winds he estimated to be at least 70 mph (112 kilometers an hour), he passed a man on a bicycle who was madly pedaling for his life.


It’s something you’d see in a Twilight Zone, horror movie or something,” Wyland said.

Wyland realized just how lucky he had been when he returned to downtown Lahaina on Thursday.

“It was devastating to see all the burned-out cars. There was nothing that was standing,” he said.

His gallery was destroyed, along with the works of 30 artist

The wildfires are the state’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 system with sirens that are tested monthly.

Riley Curran said he fled his Front Street home after climbing up a neighboring building to get a better look. He doubts county officials could have done more given the speed of the onrushing flames.

“It’s not that people didn’t try to do anything,” Curran said. “The fire went from zero to 100.”


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.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/13/hawaii-wildfires-at-least-89-confirmed-killed-after-deadliest-us-blaze-in-100-years

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Holiness2100: 10:06am On Aug 13, 2023

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Righteousness2(m): 10:11am On Aug 13, 2023
Birth pains are off the chart .

The Entire world is Gripped by a really bad case of WAR fever .

Pestilences, diseases, Earthquakes, floods, fires and all manner of Disasters rattling the world in High Frequency and Intensity.

A huge tsunami of brainwashing, deceptions, confusion, fear, and anxiety, accompanied by violence and terror in various places.

The Antichrist System Is Being Positioned Right Before Our Eyes…

BIBLE PROPHECY IS UNFOLDIND BEFORE OUR EYES BUT MANY in the World ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE IT.

We are the Only Generation to see Everything JESUS said will Happen preceding HIS coming , unfold before our eyes

Escape for your life now. THE Coming of JESUS CHRIST is imminent. Run to JESUS Christ now!
You will not be able to survive the events of Great tribulation.

Those who have Ears to Hear, Let them Hear.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by immortalcrown(m): 10:17am On Aug 13, 2023
This is a natural disaster that ECOWAS wants to use artificial disaster to replicate in Niger.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Masterviolence(m): 10:22am On Aug 13, 2023
If you look at this from an aerial view it's as if a nuke was dropped.

It saddens my heart.
Rip to the dead.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Galaxydon1(m): 1:15pm On Aug 13, 2023
Righteousness2:
Birth pains are off the chart .

The Entire world is Gripped by a really bad case of WAR fever .

Pestilences, diseases, Earthquakes, floods, fires and all manner of Disasters rattling the world in High Frequency and Intensity.

A huge tsunami of brainwashing, deceptions, confusion, fear, and anxiety, accompanied by violence and terror in various places.

The Antichrist System Is Being Positioned Right Before Our Eyes…

BIBLE PROPHECY IS UNFOLDIND BEFORE OUR EYES BUT MANY in the World ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE IT.

We are the Only Generation to see Everything JESUS said will Happen preceding HIS coming , unfold before our eyes

Escape for your life now. THE Coming of JESUS CHRIST is imminent. Run to JESUS Christ now!
You will not be able to survive the events of Great tribulation.

Those who have Ears to Hear, Let them Hear.
everyone believes his or her religion is the best, if Jesus could destroy the world cos of his second coming, what about the innocent kids that died in the flame.. they white gave us Christianity and sold our forefathers as slave, it's high Time we wise up,

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by MrPRevailer(m): 3:32pm On Aug 13, 2023
So many food markets, multinational food companies and forests have been catching fire everywhere.
This cannot be a coincidence. The gullible masses should start asking questions.

Stop watching mainstream media news. (Censored propaganda).

JUST NOW: See this perfect circle wildfire. 100/% an attack
https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1690588435831259136?s=20

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by raskymonojendor: 3:32pm On Aug 13, 2023
North America and Wildfire plus tornados/hurricanes.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by buygala(m): 3:32pm On Aug 13, 2023
Righteousness2:
Birth pains are off the chart .

The Entire world is Gripped by a really bad case of WAR fever .

Pestilences, diseases, Earthquakes, floods, fires and all manner of Disasters rattling the world in High Frequency and Intensity.

A huge tsunami of brainwashing, deceptions, confusion, fear, and anxiety, accompanied by violence and terror in various places.

The Antichrist System Is Being Positioned Right Before Our Eyes…

BIBLE PROPHECY IS UNFOLDIND BEFORE OUR EYES BUT MANY in the World ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE IT.

We are the Only Generation to see Everything JESUS said will Happen preceding HIS coming , unfold before our eyes

Escape for your life now. THE Coming of JESUS CHRIST is imminent. Run to JESUS Christ now!
You will not be able to survive the events of Great tribulation.

Those who have Ears to Hear, Let them Hear.

Dear Sir

Please shut up and stop making a mockery of Christianity... Shithead analysis like this is the kind Muslims and other religions will never make, and it is one of the major reasons why people take Christianity for a joke.

It's all shades of sick to sermonize the death of these people... People who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, some of them possibly even being more Christian than your hypocritical self..

From the time of Noah's flood till forever, there will be always be natural disasters.. It has nothing to do with anyone's coming or going..

Once again, please shut your mouth.. Na God I take beg you...

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by jayAjoku(m): 3:33pm On Aug 13, 2023
Fire Dey burn na cars dey Melt 🤣😅😂 Trees no Dey burn at all and Una go believe say na wild fire 🔥🤣😂🤣 Lazer And Energy Weapons At work here if you know you know 🎯🤷🏾‍♂️

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by GanagiBitrus: 3:33pm On Aug 13, 2023
Someone please kindly explain...
God forbid, but how come such wildfires are not recorded in Africa? Is it that those people live inside forest, or what?

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by YesDaddyTill203: 3:33pm On Aug 13, 2023
May their souls rest in Peace.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by MrBroke(m): 3:33pm On Aug 13, 2023
So sad embarassed

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Whalis: 3:34pm On Aug 13, 2023
This is happening in a country where my countrymen pay millions to migrate to. Who knows one of them might be among!
They leave a place that is natural disaster-free to a place laden with disaster.
Our problem is leadership disaster. Sometimes I wonder which is worst, natural or human as in leadership disaster?

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by GeneralPula: 3:34pm On Aug 13, 2023
Eyah..
Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by SupportTeam: 3:34pm On Aug 13, 2023
Good
Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Harrynight(m): 3:35pm On Aug 13, 2023
God what is this cry


Every country have their own problems honestly

Nigeria may not experience Wildfire buh hey Insecurity and corruption are another terrible disaster we experience here leading to thousands and millions of poverty and deaths of people

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Pwettylinda(f): 3:35pm On Aug 13, 2023
In a bid to destroy Inec and Chicago university evidence look at what someone has caused

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by YesDaddyTill203: 3:35pm On Aug 13, 2023
Righteousness2:
Birth pains are off the chart .

The Entire world is Gripped by a really bad case of WAR fever .

Pestilences, diseases, Earthquakes, floods, fires and all manner of Disasters rattling the world in High Frequency and Intensity.

A huge tsunami of brainwashing, deceptions, confusion, fear, and anxiety, accompanied by violence and terror in various places.

The Antichrist System Is Being Positioned Right Before Our Eyes…

BIBLE PROPHECY IS UNFOLDIND BEFORE OUR EYES BUT MANY in the World ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE IT.

We are the Only Generation to see Everything JESUS said will Happen preceding HIS coming , unfold before our eyes

Escape for your life now. THE Coming of JESUS CHRIST is imminent. Run to JESUS Christ now!
You will not be able to survive the events of Great tribulation.

Those who have Ears to Hear, Let them Hear.
Rubbish trash. Most of the people that died are more than likely Christians. So your Jesus allowed them to die for nothing, including children?
STFU and get lost
Even your Jesus couldn't save himself when he was being hanged. Mumu man.
Jesus has been coming for more than 2000 years. This is just fable to keep mumus like you in check. Jesus is dead like any other human and he ain't coming back.
Grow some brain.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Wizpa(m): 3:36pm On Aug 13, 2023
angry
Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Reference(m): 3:37pm On Aug 13, 2023
Global warming is real and the destruction is gradually ticking all the boxes of human existence on this planet.

Earth is fighting back against a pesky specie called Man.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by princeade86(m): 3:37pm On Aug 13, 2023
This life

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by NOwazobia: 3:37pm On Aug 13, 2023
Is this even a recent event, or just a John the Baptist one just to make way for your usual preaching?
Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Helpfromabove1(m): 3:38pm On Aug 13, 2023
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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by abysirius(m): 3:38pm On Aug 13, 2023
Are they saying this was a natural disaster? No one set the fire?

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Righthussle: 3:39pm On Aug 13, 2023
Righteousness2:
Birth pains are off the chart .

The Entire world is Gripped by a really bad case of WAR fever .

Pestilences, diseases, Earthquakes, floods, fires and all manner of Disasters rattling the world in High Frequency and Intensity.

A huge tsunami of brainwashing, deceptions, confusion, fear, and anxiety, accompanied by violence and terror in various places.

The Antichrist System Is Being Positioned Right Before Our Eyes…

BIBLE PROPHECY IS UNFOLDIND BEFORE OUR EYES BUT MANY in the World ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE IT.

We are the Only Generation to see Everything JESUS said will Happen preceding HIS coming , unfold before our eyes

Escape for your life now. THE Coming of JESUS CHRIST is imminent. Run to JESUS Christ now!
You will not be able to survive the events of Great tribulation.

Those who have Ears to Hear, Let them Hear.

I'm antichrist .
i'm anti-islam
i'm anti - all organized religion on earth .

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Ayanfet: 3:39pm On Aug 13, 2023
Galaxydon1:
everyone believes his or her religion is the best, if Jesus could destroy the world cos of his second coming, what about the innocent kids that died in the flame.. they white gave us Christianity and sold our forefathers as slave, it's high Time we wise up,
It's not only the west that participated in slave trade Arabs did too.

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by Pwettylinda(f): 3:40pm On Aug 13, 2023
YesDaddyTill203:

Rubbish trash. Most of the people that died are more than likely Christians. So your Jesus allowed them to die for nothing, including children?
STFU and get lost
Even your Jesus couldn't safe himself when he was being hanged. Mumu man.

No wonder you people use to fight for your God.

He must be powerless

Na thunder go fire both Christians and Muslims

You people need education

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Re: Hawaii Wildfires: At Least 89 Confirmed Dead After Deadliest US Blaze In 100yrs by KillMNKnow(f): 3:40pm On Aug 13, 2023
God punishing them or something

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