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A Northern California prison was on generator power for a second week and inmates were issued masks to cope with unhealthy air after wildfires knocked out electricity and choked the remote region with smoke.
Hawaiian Electric Co. is facing multiple lawsuits after more than 100 people died in the fires.
Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Co. on Thursday, saying the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions.
Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Company, saying the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
More than 800 people are still missing after the catastrophic wildfire that decimated Lahaina.
For foreign workers, Lahaina was an oasis before they lost everything in a devastating wildfire that razed the town and killed over 100 people.
"We have to stay together because this ― no doubt ― is the thing that is going to make us stronger," Johnson said of the "heartbreaking" wildfires.
Experts are warning residents in Lahaina and Upper Kula not to filter their own tap water, after the fires damaged hundreds of drinking water pipes.
Residents are fleeing the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories ahead of a noon Friday deadline as a wildfire nears the city of 20,000.
"The public is trained to seek higher ground in the event that the siren is sounded,” emergency administrator Herman Andaya explained.