Death Toll From Hawaii Wildfires Approaches 100, Worst in a Century

‘None of us really know the size of it yet,’ says Maui Police Chief John Pelletier.

AP/Rick Bowmer
The governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, right, and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell look at a destroyed building along Front Street during a tour of wildfire damage at Lahaina, Hawaii. AP/Rick Bowmer

As the death toll from a wildfire that razed a historic Maui town reached 93, authorities warned that the effort to find and identify the dead was still in its early stages. It’s already the deadliest American wildfire for over a century.

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