IT’S usually what tropical island paradise computer wallpapers are made of and what travel agents love to display in their brochures. Yet there’s none of that to show right now and it resembles a war-zone more than anything else.
The devastation that hit Maui in Hawaii in the US is on a scale never seen before. An entire town has almost been wiped off the map, buildings and cars have been reduced to ash and thousands have been left homeless and hopeless.
At the time of going to print the death toll was over 100 in a population of fewer than 200 000 people and expected to climb. More than 10 000 people were forced to evacuate their homes, many of which were incinerated as the fires blazed a path through
