By: Brady Cheng

Now that at least a thousand people are dead from the Maui wildfires, and governor Josh Green has labeled it as “the worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced.”

Four days before Saturday, a fast-moving blaze obliterated buildings and melted cars. The authorities suspect that the total number of losses is likely to rise in the coming days.

Expressing shock over the scale of devastation, Josh Green 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 healthcare, and then turn to rebuilding.”

They are very unfortunate, and they need help. Cars are melting and buildings are falling over.

Dogs are trying to uncover the dead. “Crews with cadaver-sniffing dogs have covered just three per cent of the search area,” Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said. That is not a lot, though, which is very disappointing to the people who had loved ones who burned in the fire. “Dogs worked the rubble, and their occasional bark – used to alert their handlers to a possible corpse – echoed over the hot and colorless landscape. Sirens stationed around the island – intended to warn of impending natural disasters – never sounded, and widespread power and cellular outages hampered other forms of alerts.” says Namita Singh, the author of this article. But dogs only found three percent of the entire search area so far, which is disappointing.