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  • Maui’s grim search begins as the death toll increases

    Maui’s grim search begins as the death toll increases

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    Riya Sharma
    in

    As emergency personnel prepared to start examining over 1,000 structures burnt by the rapidly spreading flames, disbelief and worry about the total number of killed and unidentified from one of Hawaii’s deadliest natural tragedies continued to grow. The official number of fatalities increased to 55 overnight, but the mayor of Maui County, Richard Bissen Jr.,…