Death toll in Hawaii wildfire rises to 55, national disaster declared

At least 55 have been killed in the wildfires that began earlier in the week on Hawaii's Maui Island, local authorities said Thursday, with the historic town of Lahaina devastated and the full scale of the disaster still unclear amid power and communication outages.U.S. President Joe Biden approved a national disaster declaration for Hawaii the same day, making federal funding available to affected residents.In terms of casualties, it is the second worst wildfire disaster in the United States over the past 100 years after a 2018 wildfire in California that killed 85 people, U.S. media repor…READ FULL ARTICLE