{"id":100455,"date":"2023-10-31T15:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=100455"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:27:49","slug":"police-release-bodycam-footage-from-the-day-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/police-release-bodycam-footage-from-the-day-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release bodycam footage from the day blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Maui wildfires: Police release 16 minutes of bodycam footage from the day blaze tore through Lahaina<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Police bodycam footage shows the harrowing scenes which confronted first responders during the Maui wildfires<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The fire killed at least 99 people, and burned more than 2,000 structures. Decimating the historic town of Lahaina\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Officers can be seen going door to door to rescue people, as the raging fire burns in the background<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police in Maui have released harrowing bodycam footage showing officers rushing people to safety after a wildfire ripped through the town of Lahaina in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video show officers rescuing 15 people from a coffee shop, taking a severely burned man to a nearby hospital, and rescuing an elderly man from his home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fast-moving wildfire on August 8 killed at least 99 people and burned more than 2,000 structures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The blaze ran riot through the historic town of Lahaina decimating the popular tourist attraction that dates back to the 1700s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 16 minutes of video was released at a news conference in Wailuku showing the bravery of officers as they evacuated the town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/13\/77220145-12693035-This_image_provided_by_Maui_Police_Department_shows_police_body_-a-5_1698760121493.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maui police released harrowing bodycam footage showing officers rushing people to safety as a wildfire ripped through the town of Lahaina in August<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/13\/77220143-12693035-This_image_provided_by_Maui_Police_Department_shows_police_body_-a-4_1698760118723.jpg\" height=\"354\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The fast-moving wildfire on August 8 killed at least 99 people and burned more than 2,000 structure<\/p>\n<p>In one portion of the video, officers can be seen banging on the doors to a property before they make their way inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One officer can be heard telling an elderly man inside: &#8216;Come on, there&#8217;s a fire. Is there anybody else in here?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The video then cuts to two police officers leading the man outside by their hands as the fire rages in the distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another clip shows a thick grey smoky sky surrounding the area as a female officer asks one resident to leave as they are asking people to evacuate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In another dramatic clip, officers are seen<span>\u00a0evacuating 15 people from a coffee store and a\u00a0 supermarket on Front Street, a neighborhood that largely burned in the blaze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Officers ushered out 15 people from the coffee shop as smoke swirled in the sky around them, loaded the group into police SUVs and took them to the Lahaina Civic Center.<\/p>\n<p>In another clip, an officer finds a badly burned man at a shopping center and put him in the back seat of his patrol car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ll just take you straight to the hospital. That sound good?&#8217; the officer can be heard asking the man, who responds: &#8216;Yeah.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One video shows an officer tying a tow strap to a metal gate blocking a dirt road escape route while residents use a saw to cut the gate open so a line of cars can get past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/14\/77222539-12693035-image-a-18_1698762278342.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In one portion of the video, officers can be seen banging on the doors to a property before they make their way inside<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/14\/77222559-12693035-image-a-19_1698762292678.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Officers ushered out 15 people from a coffee shop, seen here, as smoke swirled in the sky around them<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/13\/76304509-12693035-Nealry_100_people_were_killed_in_the_blaze_that_left_hundreds_of-a-8_1698760680911.jpg\" height=\"462\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The blaze ran riot through the historic town of Lahaina decimating the popular tourist attraction that dates back to the 1700s\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/13\/76310181-12693035-Green_previously_said_I_can_say_that_if_we_support_Maui_s_econom-a-7_1698760674352.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An aerial view shows destroyed homes and buildings that burned to the ground around the harbor and Front Street in Lahaina\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the exact source of the disaster remains unknown, the fires were\u00a0fueled by strong winds from the passing Hurricane Dora.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Low humidity and a prolonged drought season which dried trees also contributed to the blaze, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The true cause of the fire is still being proved, with the possibility of it being sparked by downed power lines that ignited dry, invasive grasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Associated Press found the answer may lie in an overgrown gully beneath Hawaiian Electric Co.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many drivers who had been trying to escape the flames became trapped on Front Street, completely surrounded by black smoke and a wall of flames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/14\/74156401-12693035-Lahaina_has_nearly_been_wiped_off_the_map_after_271_buildings_we-a-22_1698762559492.jpg\" height=\"854\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Low humidity and a prolonged drought season which dried trees also contributed to the disaster, according to officials\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/14\/74203137-12693035-An_aerial_image_taken_on_August_10_shows_destroyed_cars_in_Lahai-a-20_1698762551339.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An aerial image taken on August 10, shows destroyed cars in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>This caused numerous people to jump into the water surrounding the town to escape the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous update given by Gov. Josh Green, he confirmed that multiple children are among those killed &#8211; but an exact figure of how many remains unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Hawaii News Now, a family of four was found in a burned out vehicle, and the bodies of seven people were discovered in a single home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire in Maui is the worst natural disaster to have hit Hawaii since a tsunami killed 61 people in 1960.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is also the deadliest wildfire in recent US history, with the Camp Fire in California being second after claiming the lives of 68 people.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12693035\/Maui-wildfires-Lahaina-police-bodycam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maui wildfires: Police release 16 minutes of bodycam footage from the day blaze tore through Lahaina Police bodycam footage shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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