Hawaii wildfires force urgent evacuations as Maui residents flee homes | Hawaii fires
Hawaii Island Maui’deki officials, Tuesday, a forest fire evacuated the gate out of the door and stole the emergency sirens.
Authorities, more than 100 acres of (40 hectares) growing fire first near the North Coast town Paia at 13:30, he said. There was no estimation of any limitation. There was no immediately information about what caused the fire.
“Go now!” Maui said a warning from the Emergency Management Agency. “There is a dangerous threat to life and property.”
Paia is an old sugar plantation town that has become popular among windsurfs. On the other side of the island, which was destroyed by a deadly forest fire in 2023, on the other side of the island.
Maui District Assembly Member Nohelani Uʻu-Hodgins said that his family had to evacuate from Paia to stay with him, including his 86-year-old grandmother.
“Terrible,” he said. “We never have to learn cahaina’s lessons twice; that’s not something we need to learn once again. But I’m watching my hometown burning from my house.”
Rod Antone, a resident of Paia, was trying to coordinate the evacuation of her elderly parents.
“This is annoying,” he said. “I hope nothing happens to the neighborhood.”
Antone was working in a district building in Wailuku and listened to radio updates, but did not hear the Sirens. Forest fire in 2023 at the hours before swallowing cahaina, Maui district officials could not activate the sirens.
Antone said that the winds did not feel especially strong on Tuesday, unlike August 2023, when the winds were scrambled and 102 people died. However, he said that Paia was surrounded by a dry brush like Lahaina.
The Maui fire brigade used two helicopters to help fight fire. During the cahaina fire, the helicopters were grounded due to strong winds.
The district said that the American Red Cross has established evacuation areas.
When he began to build traffic outside Paia, Wayne decided to open a door to give an alternative evacuation route to the drivers. Thibaudeau is one of the owners of Paia Sugar Mill, who closed and renewed in 2000.
Rota drivers pass the old sugar cane fields.
Authorized, using the route, said there was a flow of “cars full of people”.
A report on Lahaina Fire said that some rear roads that can provide an alternative escape are blocked by locked doors.
