How Did the Maui Fire Spread so Quickly? Overgrown Gully, Stubborn Embers May Be Key September 28, 2023 By Michael Biesecker, Jennifer Mcdermott and Bernard Condon Melted remains of an old car tire. Heavily burned trees. A charred stump of an abandoned utility pole. Investigators are...
Hawaii Officials Say DNA Tests Drop Maui Fire Death Count to 97 September 18, 2023 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Rebecca Boone WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii have adjusted the number of deaths from the deadly Maui wildfire down to...
US Sets Record for Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters in a Year, with 4 Months to Go September 13, 2023 By Seth Borenstein The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia`s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for...
Lawyers Claim Cable TV and Phone Companies Liable in Fires September 7, 2023 By Jennifer Mcdermott, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy HONOLULU (AP) — After a visit to a warehouse where Hawaiian Electric Company is housing power poles and electrical equipment...
Hawaii Electric Takes Responsibility for First Fire on Maui, But Faults Firefighters August 30, 2023 By ENNIFER McDERMOTT and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Hawaii’s electric utility acknowledged its power lines started a wildfire on Maui but faulted county firefighters for declaring the blaze...
Bare Electrical Wire and Leaning Poles on Maui Were Possible Cause of Deadly Fires August 28, 2023 By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, BERNARD CONDON and MICHAEL BIESECKER In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the...
Shareholders Sue Hawaiian Electric Over Maui Wildfires August 25, 2023 Shareholders of Hawaiian Electric HE.N on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the utility provider in a San Francisco federal court,...
County of Maui Sues Hawaiian Electric for Negligence Leading to Wildfires August 25, 2023 The county of Maui, Hawaii, on Thursday sued Hawaiian Electric HE.N accusing the power company of acting negligently by failing...
RLI Sees Up to $75 Million in Catastrophe Losses from Hawaiian Wildfires in Q3 August 24, 2023 Property and casualty insurer RLI Corp said on Wednesday it expects to record pretax net catastrophe losses of between $65...
Maui Fire Victims Pursue Legal Tactic That Led to $13.5 Billion California Settlement August 23, 2023 By Joel Rosenblatt Hawaii property owners are seizing on a legal shortcut used by fire victims in California to secure compensation from Hawaiian...