Takeaways from this week's reports on the deadly 2023 Maui fire that destroyed Lahaina
Officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong when the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Hawaii town, more than a half-year after the disaster. But two key reports released this week are filling in some of the blanks. A detailed timeline of the events was released by Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez on Wednesday. And the previous day the Maui Fire Department put out a separate after-action report. It detailed the challenges the department faced as well as more than 100 recommendations for improvements. The fire on Aug. 8, 2023, killed 101 people in Lahaina.