Maui Police confirm 114 deaths and estimate that more than 1,000 people are still missing
MADRID, 20 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The governor of the US state of Hawaii, Josh Green, has estimated that the damage caused by the forest fires that affect the island of Maui amount to almost 6,000 million dollars (about 5,510 million euros) based on preliminary estimates, according to reported CNN.
As far as material losses are concerned, Green has specified that the flames have completely destroyed more than 2,200 buildings and that around another 500 have been damaged.
To this must be added the human damage. As of Saturday, with approximately 78 percent of the affected area registered, the total number of confirmed deaths stood at 114.
In addition, thousands of residents have been forcibly displaced by this natural disaster, and the Maui Police Department estimates that more than 1,000 more people remain missing.
This tragedy is already considered the deadliest natural disaster in the recent history of Hawaii, after the tsunami that in 1960 left 61 people dead, and the wave of fires that has claimed the most lives in the United States in more than a century: in 1918 , 453 people died in a series of fires in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
