36 dead, 11,000 flee as wildfires rip through Maui. 
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At least 36 people are dead and more than 11,000 have been evacuated from Maui after wildfires rapidly spread across the Hawaiian island yesterday, officials in Maui County said. Another 2,000 people are expected to leave by Friday, officials said. The fires on Maui and the Big Island have been fanned by the winds from Hurricane Dora, a Category 4 storm. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued multiple residents after they fled into the Pacific Ocean to escape the fast-moving blazes. “I was the last one off the dock,” one man told NBC News. “When the firestorm came through, (it) took everything with it.” Lahaina, a seaside town that was once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, was decimated by the fires. Here's the latest. 


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