Number of missing in Lahaina now stands at 66
This new number is a huge improvement over the thousand-plus people originally thought to have perished, or even the four hundred or so that constituted the revised number:
One month after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century leveled the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Friday that the number of missing has dropped to 66, the confirmed death toll remains at 115 and authorities will soon escort residents on visits to their property. …
With about half the deceased still unidentified, Green said he expected there to be significant overlap between the names on the missing list and remains that have already been recovered. Therefore, he said, he did not expect the death toll to rise considerably.
That’s the history of what happened in Paradise, by the way. Although the Paradise death toll was never thought to be as high as initially thought in Lahaina, it was nevertheless much higher for a while than the final Paradise toll turned out to be. Any death toll is sad, and both fires were horrific, but lower death tolls are certainly relative good news.
The guy who didn’t blow the siren and the guy who hesitated on the water release should be charged with criminal negligence. What’s wrong with the County Attorney?
You know the line: You had one job….
66 missing? How many have they said are dead? Last night I saw a post about some 183 bodies that washed ashore on a nearby island. People who took to the water to flee the flames and were taken out to sea by the current.
Somebody:
There’s a lot of stuff written about the casualties in Lahaina that isn’t true. Rumor being printed as fact.
“authorities will soon escort residents on visits to their property.”
What ?
Cicero:
I think it’s a bit like what happened in Paradise. For paradise, they had the roads closed for about a month, and then when they let people back in they had a roadblock closed to everyone except residents because they didn’t want disaster tourism or looting or whatever. So you had to pass a checkpoint and prove you were a resident, and then they gave you hazmat suits because the sites were toxic. (I was there with Gerard.) So there was a fair amount of control.