Devastating wildfires on Maui have left its historic town of Lahaina looking like 'a war zone,' according to Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen.
Devastating wildfires on Maui have left its historic town of Lahaina looking like"a war zone," according to Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen."The closest thing I can compare it to is perhaps a war zone or maybe a bomb went off," Bissen told ABC News' Eva Pilgrim in an interview Friday on"Good Morning America."
Destroyed homes and buildings burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii. While Lahaina and the west side of Maui has been shut down amid the active wildfires, Bissen noted that the rest of the island remains open.At least 55 people have died as wildfires tear through the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials said.
Green went on to call the wildfires “catastrophic” and said the state is seeking 2,000 hotel rooms to help the displaced people of Maui. After surveying the damage earlier in the day, Green estimated it will take billions of dollars and many years to rebuild Lahaina, and he estimates well over 1,000 buildings were destroyed.
Since the Maui wildfires, the calls she says she's received aren't to make funeral arrangements for those lost -- it's people calling to see if she has information on their missing loved ones. She doesn't.
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