Search teams with cadaver dogs have combed through 25% of the Lahaina disaster zone from the Maui wildfires, discovering the remains of a 99th victim on Monday, but perhaps hundreds more people were unaccounted for nearly a week after the disaster.
Fueled by winds gusting up to 80 mph , an inferno burning at temperatures that the governor said reached 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit raced from the dry grasslands outside town into the historic resort town of Lahaina last Tuesday, turning block after block into ash.
"It's not just ash on your clothing when you take it off. It's our loved ones," Pelletier said, relating the instructions that a director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave rescue workers in a briefing. Help is arriving for those left homeless. Nearly 2,000 housing units, including 400 hotel rooms, 1,400 Airbnb units and 160 private homes were being made available, Hawaii Governor Josh Green told the news conference.
In one bit of positive news, officials on Sunday discovered 60 people taking refuge at a private home that had been isolated because without telephone communication or electricity. Many of those 60 had been listed as unaccounted for, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said.
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