Maui Death Toll Keeps Mounting.
“The death toll from Maui’s wildfires, now at 96, is expected to rise as specialist search teams comb through Maui’s scorched ruins for human remains, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) said in a video update. “They know ultimately they will be sharing with our people that there have been more fatalities,” he said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency teams in Lahaina are using trained canines to scout many areas, but even the dogs are finding conditions difficult because of the heat, Administrator Deanne Criswell told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” The FEMA chief described the damaged region as something like “a scene from an apocalyptic movie.””
Climate change continues to wreak havoc across the World in new and unforeseen ways. The Maui natural disaster is just another reminder that the World is changing very rapidly and in ways that were unthinkable a few years ago. The new shocking reality landed squarely in paradise last week with fires that raged out of control and decimated part of the island. This is only a harbinger of what is to come.
