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Hawaii fire: Emergency management leaders at crisis conference when wildfire erupted

By Barnini Chakraborty
Published August 23, 2023 5:20pm ET
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Hawaii fire: Emergency management leaders at crisis conference when wildfire erupted
The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. | (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP)

The country’s top disaster management leaders and Hawaii’s senior emergency officials were at a conference on how to handle a crisis when the deadliest American wildfire in a century swept through Maui.

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