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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12401249/FEMA-says-cost-5-5-BILLION-rebuild-burned-Lahaina-wildfire-destroyed-2-200-buildings-including-1-500-homes.html

Maui inferno death toll rises to 89, making it deadliest
wildfire in modern US history, as lawyers claim Hawaii
Electric may have stoked blaze by failing to shut off
power to Lahaina

. . .

Wow ... TWO fuckin' days and the deep-pockets
ambulance-chasers are already on it ........

It's the job of an electric utility to make sure
the power stays ON regardless. It had no real way
to know that such a totally weird thing was
suddenly happening.

In any case, once lit, the high downslope winds
ensured the firestorm, not a few sparky power
lines.

But the ambulance-chasers can't make any MONEY
off such truths .....

This was a SERIOUS firestorm - the (ex) city looks
like NK sent over a tac-nuke - everything but everything
is total toast and it all happened in a relative instant.
No time for anyone/anything to react properly.

There are still hundreds of "missing" ... but they
haven't started sifting the ashes for bone fragments
yet. This level of shit CAN happen - and in this
weird case DID. One day, maybe soon, there's going
to be a west-coast tsunami - a big growing crack in
the ocean floor has recently been found. Won't be
enough warning or time for that either. The lawyers
will probably blame it all on the solid-waste
authority ......

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