Teams marked the remnants of homes with an orange 'X' to signify they had been searched − and 'HR' at sites where human remains had been found.
, addressed claims of residents who said they had little or no warning in the hours and minutes before the fires swept through their neighborhoods. Many locals said authorities were woefully unprepared for the disaster. The state attorney general's review of the disaster will include a look at when sirens were sounded and other actions were taken, the Democrat said.
"We very much need to acknowledge that climate change is upon us," she said, adding that"there are whole states ... where you can't even use the words climate change because they still have a head-in-the-sand attitude."Lahaina dates back centuries and was the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the early 1800s.
He warned it was going to take"an incredible amount of time" to recover. He pledged not to let Lahaina get too expensive for locals after rebuilding. He said the state could acquire land to use for workforce housing.
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