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    Takeaways from this week's reports on the deadly 2023 Maui fire that destroyed Lahaina

    by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher,Rebecca Boone,Claudia Lauer and Christopher L. Keller Apr 18, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

    More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui town, officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong and how to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. But two reports released this week are filling in some of the blanks.

    The most recent is a detailed timeline of the fire that tore through the heart of on Aug. 8, 2023, killing 101 people. Released Wednesday by Attorney General Anne Lopez, it is the first phase of a three-part comprehensive investigation being conducted by the Fire Safety Research Institute, or FSRI, with more coming

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