Over the decades, residents have gathered, feasted and proposed marriage beneath the 150-year-old banyan tree in the downtown area of Lahaina, Hawaii. But last month, after a fast-moving blaze tore through the town in West Maui, scorching the tree, some feared that it might not live on. Then, green shoots began to unfurl around the…
Authorities in Hawaii released a list late on Thursday naming 388 people who are still unaccounted for in the aftermath of the deadliest wildfires in America in more than a century, which killed at least 115 people. The fires devastated the coastal town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, as well as other areas…
Jason Musgrove has spent every day for the past two weeks trying to find out whether his mother is alive or dead. He and his stepfather drive to shelters, clinics and aid distribution sites around Maui, lurching between hope and despair, like hundreds of other families still searching for relatives and friends in the wake…
A wildfire in eastern Washington State has left one person dead and destroyed dozens of structures as the authorities have raced to contain blazes across the state and in the nearby Canadian province of British Columbia. The Gray fire began in Washington around noon on Friday, prompting evacuations, and had burned through 9,500 acres by…
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said on Friday that he had authorized a review of the emergency response to the devastating fires that decimated the town of Lahaina, even as he said that unusually powerful winds and fast-moving flames had complicated the effort. Pressed in an interview on CNN about the lack of audible sirens…
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said on Friday that he had authorized a review of the emergency response to the devastating fires that decimated the town of Lahaina, even as he said that unusually powerful winds and fast-moving flames had complicated the effort. Pressed in an interview on CNN about the lack of audible sirens…
About 11,000 tourists have been evacuated and another 1,500 were slated to fly out of the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday, after wildfires inflamed by gusting winds killed at least 36 people, destroyed homes and businesses and caused outages to cellphone service and power. “Visitors who are on nonessential travel are being asked to…
The death toll from the fires that overtook Maui was already growing significantly on Thursday as questions mounted over whether officials had acted with enough urgency to evacuate the tourist haven of Lahaina, where many people described harrowing escapes. When the brush fire was first spotted early on Tuesday, Maui County officials ordered evacuations in…
Four people were found dead early Thursday morning at two homes that were on fire in Laurel, Neb., and foul play is suspected, the authorities said. Just after 3 a.m. Thursday, the authorities in the city of about 1,000 people, northwest of Omaha, received a call about an explosion in the 200 block of Elm…