By: Jason Huang

With a death toll of 93, the Governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, labeled it the “worst natural disaster Hawaii has ever faced.” The fires blazed through the historic town of Lahaina, melting cars and destroying buildings. Expressing the shock of the scale of the devastation, Mr 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.”

The death toll is expected to rise higher in the following days in the worst wildfire in more than a century. Crews with sniffing dogs have covered three percent of the search area according to Maui Police Chief John Pelletier. “We’ve got an area that is at least five square miles and it is full of our loved ones,” noting that the death toll is likely to grow and “none of us really know the size of it yet.” Teams marked destroyed buildings with an X and HR for human remains. Getting the dead was extremely challenging according to Pelletier because “we pick up the remains and they fall apart … When we find our family and our friends, the remains that we are finding is through a fire that melted metal.”

So far, almost 2,200 were either destroyed or damaged by the fire in West Maui, 86 percent was residential area and the damage was estimated to be $6bn.

Overall, the fire in Maui was the worst fire in the US now and it destroyed buildings and killed people.