US: Bush fire near site of deadly Maui blaze prompts authorities to evacuate citizens
World | Aug 27, 2023, 09:14 AM ISTIt wasn’t immediately clear how many people were affected by the evacuation order.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were affected by the evacuation order.
There are no reports of missing people in the area, causing authorities to examine the possibility that the victims are migrants who entered Greece from the nearby border with Turkey.
Maui residents and county officials have said that the sirens could have saved many lives in the wildfires, but Andaya said that they would have driven more people into the fire.
A mobile morgue unit that arrived on Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify remains named two victims, Lahaina residents Robert Dyckman, 74, and Buddy Jantoc, 79.
The newly released figure surpassed the toll of the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California, which left 85 dead and destroyed the town of Paradies.
The 46-trunk tree was planted in Maui's Lahaina town in 1873 and currently is the size of an entire city block at a height of 60 feet.
The fires were the latest in a series of problems caused by extreme weather around the globe this summer. Experts say climate change is increasing the likelihood of such events.
Details were not immediately available on the number of injuries or fatalities. However, multiple media reported that two helicopters were involved in the fatal crash.
Quoting state broadcaster ERT, it said the accident occurred over the town of Karystos on the island of Evia near Athens, where a fire has been burning.
The wildfires spread across 16 regions of Algeria due to high winds, creating 97 blazes in different parts of the African nation.
At points this week, air quality in places including New York, the nation’s most populous city, nearly hit the top of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s air-pollution scale.
The government declared a state of catastrophe in the La Araucanía region, which is south of Ñuble and Biobío.
The fire started on Friday night in a steep canyon and quickly spread toward the sea, fanned by strong winds up to 50 mph (80 kph).
The hazard trees could potentially fall onto people and cars on section of State Route 180 known as Generals Highway, or they could create barriers for emergency and fire response, the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks said on Friday.
The currently most active fire in California cut a 64.3 km stretch of the Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains area, said the Inciweb, an interstate incident information system, in an update on Sunday.
The Caldor Fire in the northern Sierra Nevada already destroyed dozens of homes, and authorities on Friday closed down a 46-mile (74-km) stretch of Interstate 50, the main route between the state capital of Sacramento and Lake Tahoe on the Nevada state line.
California has already surpassed the acreage burned at this point last year, which ended up setting the record. Now it’s entering a period when powerful winds have often driven the deadliest blazes.
The U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday that beginning on Aug. 22 it will close nine national forests from near Lake Tahoe at the Nevada border on the east all the way west to Six Rivers National Forest, which stretches north to the Oregon border and contains more than 1 million acres of land alone.
California has already surpassed the acreage burned at this point last year, which ended up setting the record.
The cloud stretched over much of the city on Sunday afternoon, covering the skies overhead with a black and orange blanket of smoke.
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