 Maui has been devastated by fire (Picture: Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock) 'When we find our family and our friends, the remains that we're finding is through a fire that melted metal.' Governor Josh Green called the fires the 'worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced', adding: 'We can only wait and support those who are living. 'Our focus now is to reunite people when we can and get them housing and get them health care, and then turn to rebuilding.' He also called on people with missing family members to go to the family assistance centre and do a DNA test, to make it easier to 'identify your loved ones'. At least 2,200 buildings have been damaged or destroyed in West Maui, and so far across the island the cost of the damage is estimated at $6 billion. 86% of those destroyed buildings were){kind=link}
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Efforts to find and identify the people killed in the deadliest US wildfire for more than 100 years are still in their early stages as the official death toll climbs to 93.
Wildfires have spread across Hawaii and ravaged areas of Maui in recent days – but so far crews with cadaver dogs have only been able to cover around 3% of the search area.
Maui Police chief John Pelletier said on Sunday: ‘We’ve got an area that we have to contain that is at least 5 square miles and it is full of our loved ones.