Thousands are still without power, more than 250 structures have burned to the ground, and emergency services are overwhelmed.
Lahaina Town, appears charred and hollowed out in videos of the devastation, with hardly a building remaining. The busy area for locals and tourists once housed
that dated back to the 1700s. Videos uploaded to Twitter shows how smoking, blackened stores and abandoned burning cars line the streets:Hawaii, like many other U.S. states, experiences wildfires when there are prolonged periods of hot and dry conditions that allow flames to spread. One of the reasons that the current wildfire in Maui has been so destructive is due to the current high winds.
The area has also experienced low humidity recently, creating little respite for the arid conditions that allowed the fires to spread so quickly, USA Today
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