Watch: Maui valley flattened by 'fireball'

Wildfires person destroyed the historical municipality of Lahaina, making it the astir deadly occurrence successful the US for a century.

Recovery crews combing done charred homes and vehicles are apt to find 10 to 20 much victims per day, the politician has warned.

Josh Green told CBS News it could instrumentality up to 10 days to larn the afloat decease toll.

The BBC's Helena Humphrey reports from a vale successful upcountry Maui, which locals told her acted similar a chimney for a fireball that ravaged the area.

Hurricane winds fanned the flames, flattening the trees determination into tinder earlier the fires dispersed to people's homes.

Read much astir the wildfires here.