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How the fuck do this many people die in a fire right next to the water?
Did the government just not tell anyone until it was too late??? This is the easiest evacuation ever, and they fucked up this badly.
Literally blew in through the town on hurricane winds (climate change is so fun) in the middle of the night and just started lighting homes on fire before a lot of people even woke up. Lahaina was right up against the ocean with little sea walls and such, but most of the town is pretty far from the water if you're on foot running through smoke and fire.
So far 96 dead in a tiny town.
I've heard that the fires started from power lines that HELCO, the worst American power company perhaps outside of Texas, decided not to shut off despite the warned-about high winds and drought.
There are probably hundreds of more dead. Just unbelievable to me. Those poor people had no warning at all.
Even Texas has the basic ass capacity to warn about incoming fires.
Decaying empire etc.
Extreme this is not our fault, please still trust us attitudes.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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