(CNN) — In the first of three reports, Hawaii’s attorney general on Wednesday laid out a comprehensive timeline of the catastrophic Maui wildfires last year that killed 101 people, including details of flying embers carried by high winds, blinding, thick smoke and trapped first responders, all of which hampered efforts to combat the fires.
The report used extensive data to show how a combination of environmental and geographical factors, along with preparedness and response conditions, enabled the fire to “rapidly intensify into an urban conflagration.”Local residents in Maui, Hawaii, share the scary experience of having to evacuate from their homes to escape the deadly wildfires.
Fueled by ferocious winds from Hurricane Dora hundreds of miles offshore, the fast-moving wildfires leveled entire neighborhoods and displaced hundreds of residents. The historic town of Lahaina – located on Maui’s western coast – suffered extensive destruction and was nearly wiped out. Two people are still reported missing from the fires by the Maui Police Department, Wednesday’s report said.
“A few days after the wildfire, I was speaking with the governor. And he and I were asking the same questions that everybody else was, which is: How could something like this have ever happened?” Lopez said. Kerber said ATF investigators hope to share their findings into the cause and origin of the fires by the first anniversary of the disaster.The origin of the first fire in Lahaina that day was traced to a fast-moving brush fire that ignited near the Lahaina Intermediate School around 6:35 a.m., the report said.
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