Kansas newspaper raided - Hunter Biden special counsel - Maui fires analyzed

Source: BBC via Yahoo! News

1. Summary
   93 people are confirmed to have died in Maui's wildfires as of Sunday, making the incident the deadliest US wildfire in a century. About 2,200 structures are destroyed, and 1,000 people remain missing. The head of the Hawaii Firefighters Association said Maui did not have enough firefighters.
   
   Hawaii has been praised for having one of the world's largest outdoor all-hazard public safety warning systems, but there is no record of the system being triggered at the start of last week's fires. Alerts were instead sent out via cellphones, radio, and TV stations, but power and cellular outages may have limited their reach. The University of Hawaii's Karl Kim said wildfires are the most difficult natural disaster to predict.
   
   The fires will likely have an economic impact, as 51% of Maui County's jobs are in the tourism sector and the mostly-destroyed town of Lahaina was a major attraction. Tourism researcher Rich Harrill wrote in The Conversation that New Orleans saw a tourism recovery within a decade after Hurricane Katrina, as did the Hawaiian island of Kauai after a 1992 hurricane.

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   What went wrong in Maui? As 'cataclysmic' fires grew, many heard no warnings.
   USA Today (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 72% • 6 min read
   

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   Hawaii’s alarm system didn’t warn people of the blaze. Why did it fail?
   Deseret News (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 69% • 3 min read

1. Selected long-read
   Wildfires are a severe blow to Maui, but other iconic destinations have come back from disasters.
   The Conversation (Center) • Factual Grade 80% • 5 min read

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