{"id":40533,"date":"2023-08-10T06:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=40533"},"modified":"2023-08-10T06:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:44:28","slug":"at-least-6-dead-as-wildfire-razes-hawaiian-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=40533","title":{"rendered":"At least 6 dead as wildfire razes Hawaiian town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed in a wildfire that has razed a Hawaiian town, officials said Wednesday, with desperate residents jumping into the ocean in a bid to escape the fast-moving flames.<\/p>\n<p>US Coast Guard officers plucked at least a dozen people from the water as emergency services were overwhelmed by a disaster that appeared to have erupted almost without warning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sad to report that just before coming on this, it was confirmed we&#8217;ve had six fatalities,&#8221; Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still in a search and rescue mode and so I don&#8217;t know what will happen to that number.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke issued an emergency proclamation and told CNN the hospital system on the island of Maui &#8220;was overburdened with burn patients, people suffering from inhalation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;911 is down. Cell service is down. Phone service is down,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nLahaina, a tourist town of 12,000 on the northwestern tip of Maui, lay in ruins, said Governor Josh Green.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/141096\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed in a wildfire that has razed a Hawaiian town, officials said Wednesday, with desperate residents jumping into the ocean in a bid to escape the fast-moving flames. US Coast Guard officers plucked at least a dozen people from the water as emergency services were overwhelmed by a disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40535,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40533\/revisions\/40535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}