According to the latest information, more than a hundred people have died and nearly 1,000 disappeared as a result of the wave of fires that have ravaged the archipelago, although this number is expected to increase as search operations progress.
The death toll from the fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui has risen to more than 110 people and nearly 1,000 missing, according to the preliminary tally of casualties provided by authorities on the island of Maui. increase as searches progress. So far, rescue teams have managed to comb about 38% of the hardest hit area, on the island of Maui.
In this way, the fires that started on August 8 on the Hawaiian island have already become the greatest tragedy due to a natural disaster recorded since the state of the archipelago.
The Biden administration has approved the deployment of an additional 25 experts from the National Disaster Medical System and a team from the Victim Identification Center, bringing the number of experts on the island to 75.
Similarly, US authorities have approved more funds to aid in the recovery of the fire-ravaged island.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden announced that he will travel to the island of Maui on Monday the 21st to visit the area affected by the most severe fires the country has seen in the past century.
Source: EITB
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