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A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an ...
Fatalities confirmed on Maui as firefighters struggle to bring devastating wildfires under control, Bevan Hurley reports
Wildfires on Hawaii's Maui have killed at least 96 people, forced tens of thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate the island and devastated the historic resort city of Lahaina. It's the ...
The Hawaii National Guard, together with the U.S. 25th Infantry Division from Schofield Barracks on Oʻahu, deployed to Maui and Hawaii Island to assist with fire suppression support, search and rescue operations, and traffic control. Two UH-60 Blackhawk and one CH-47 Chinook helicopters were also deployed to support fire suppression efforts. [176]
Ongoing – Red Hill water crisis January 1 – A fireworks explosion shortly after midnight in the Aliamanu neighborhood on Oʻahu kills four people initially with over 20 others hospitalized for serious injuries.
Hawaii is known as the "extinction capital of the world" with the extinction of nearly half (140) of its historically recorded native bird species. [17] Some of the alien species that are currently affecting Hawaii include cane toads , mongoose , coquí frogs , gall wasps , Mediterranean , Oriental , and melon flies that damage crops, ants that ...
The U.S. embassy in the Bahamas has released a security warning and travel advisory that the island nation is currently unsafe for tourists amidst 18 murders — “primarily” motivated by gang ...
Kīpū Falls is a waterfall in East Kauaʻi, Hawaii. Kīpū Falls has a dangerous reputation due to drowning deaths of five people in a five-year span, as well as numerous other injuries. Due to the drowning deaths, Grove Farms Company, which owns the land where the falls are located, decided to block off the access route.