Death toll in Hawaii ‘hell’ rises to 55 as residents forced into water after heat from wildfire flames ‘began burning their skin’ on land

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At least 55 people have died after the island of Maui was engulfed by intense wildfire flames that reduced entire neighborhoods to ashes, officials said — and the death toll is only expected to rise.

Officials are still surveying the extensive damage, but already expect the tragedy to become the state’s deadliest natural disaster since a 1961 tsunami killed 61 people on the Big Island. ---More...