The wildfire that killed at least 102 people last year began as a brushfire that firefighters thought they'd put out, officials said.
HONOLULU — The wildfire that killed at least 102 people on Maui last year erupted from an earlier brushfire caused by downed power lines that firefighters believed they had extinguished, officials confirmed Wednesday as they presented their findings on the cause of the tragedy.in more than a century — was long known to have emerged in the afternoon, in the same area as a blaze that began early that morning.
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