Hawaii's chief legal officer said Friday she was opening a probe into the handling of devastating wildfires that killed at least 80 people in the state this week, as criticism grows of the official response.
Hawaii's Attorney General Anne Lopez said her office would be examining"critical decision-making and standing policies leading up to, during and after the wildfires on Maui and Hawai'i islands this week." "You made it!" cried Chyna Cho, as she embraced Amber Langdon amid the ruins."I was trying to find you."
"As a precaution... are advising residents to not use the tap water for drinking and cooking until further notice." La Puente dug through the still warm ashes of his home, picking out a Starbucks tumbler that had survived, but despairing at the loss of irreplaceable things, like mementoes of his late father.But that will never happen.The number of people killed surpassed the count from when a tsunami struck the Big Island in 1960.
Firefighters were continuing to extinguish flare-ups and contain wildfires in Lahaina, with spot blazes evident to the AFP team in the town.