• dhcmrlchtdj@lemmy.world
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    So fucking terrible. Lest we forget, wealthy mainlanders have been displacing Hawaiians and other locals long long before this wildfire. Pacific islanders are a far too often forgotten victim of US colonialism and I hope everyone on Maui gets the chance to heal from this without fear of losing there home

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      To make that worse, Lahaina was the former capital of the Kingdom of Hawai’i. They have lost their history once again.

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          Yeah, just looked again. Multiple articles stating “at least 1000 missing” with a NY post article saying “1300”.

          I also read yesterday that they had only looked through about 3% of the burn area.

          So expect that death toll to rise significantly ☹️

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            Per the article above, they’ve searched 32% of the burn area. Still horrific, but better than only 3% searched

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              Yeah. Happy to hear they’re searching much quicker and yet the casualty count hasn’t increased like I thought it would.