Officials acknowledge they don’t have a firm number on the missing. Many initially listed as unaccounted for have since been located.
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FEMA has paid out more than $5.6 million to Maui survivors, a figure expected to grow significantly
Longer-term aid that could amount to thousands or tens of thousands of dollars will likely come with documentation requirements.
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Residents flee, airlifts begin as wildfire approaches capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories
In Canada, as of Thursday, 1,053 wildfires are burning across the country, more than half of them out of control.
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Hawaii is vowing to protect landowners on Maui from being pressured to sell after wildfires
Gov. Green said that he instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina, even as he acknowledged the move would likely face legal challenges.
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Schools reopening, traffic moving again in signs of recovery from Maui fires that killed 110
Communication on Maui remained difficult Wednesday. Some people walked periodically to a seawall, where phone connections were strongest, to make calls.
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Mobile morgue arrives to assist in identification of 101 confirmed dead in Maui wildfires
A week after a blaze tore through historic Lahaina, many survivors started moving into hundreds of hotel rooms set aside for displaced locals while donations of food, ice, water and other essentials poured in.
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Maui residents had moments to make life-or-death choices
As the Maui wildfire approached, residents of Lahaina were on their own, with their families and neighbors, to choose whether to stay or to run, and where to run to.
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Wildfires remain a long-term threat to almost two-thirds of the properties in Maine
Maine has a history of major wildfires that have over the years left towns in ruins.
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Hawaii’s governor warns scores more could be dead following wildfires on Maui
The blazes that consumed most of the historic town of Lahaina, are already the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, with a death toll of at least 96.
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As death toll from Maui wildfire reaches 93, effort to find and identify the dead is just beginning
At least 2,200 buildings were damaged or destroyed in West Maui, Green said, nearly all of them residential. Across the island, the damage was estimated at close to $6 billion.