DRAFTING.- The Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, announced this Friday that his country has decided to offer two million dollars to help those affected by the fires in Hawaii, which have already claimed the lives of at least 111 people.
“I pray that there is a recovery as quickly as possible in the damaged areas,” he added at the start of a trilateral meeting at the US presidential residence at Camp David with his US counterparts, Joe Biden, and South Korea, Yoon Suk- yeol.
The fires that have ravaged Maui for more than a week are the deadliest the United States has suffered in the last century and the death toll is likely to rise because, according to data from this Thursday, only 38% of them have been registered. the burned area.
The search and rescue efforts involve more than 800 military, coast guard and civilian personnel from the Department of Defense, as well as canine teams and forensic experts from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Biden will go to the island on Monday. His trilateral summit, focused on strengthening cooperation and communication with South Korea and Japan, is the first convened at Camp David since the beginning of his term in January 2021 and the first that he has held with his counterparts from those countries. exclusively, not apart from another international meeting.
