More rises expected.
UPDATE:
Hawaii Governor Josh Green said on Thursday evening that around 1,000 people are still unaccounted for, as he said that the Aloha State is headed for its deadliest disaster in state history.
Mr Green said that those unaccounted for are not presumed dead but that hundreds have been left without communications and so their safety is unclear.
“Here’s the challenge: there’s no power, no internet, no phone, no radio. You compound some of that. So when we’re speaking to our officers, we need them to get a sat phone,” he said.
The wildfires continue to devastate Lahaina, with more than 1,700 buildings and billions of dollars in property destroyed.
When a tropical island which is surrounded by a huge amount of water burns, then what hope do the rest of us have?
That fire went from nothing too serious, to devastating very quickly. Many people were caught by surprise. Ten thousand have been evacuated (10,000 or 15,000 or 30,000) thousands are missing. Phones are out internet is out, chaos reigns.
And then you see headlines that the death toll might go over 60.