High winds from a hurricane fed fires in Maui, HI. A fire swept through Lahaina Town. Once the capital of Hawaii this place was really popular with tourists and locals. I can’t believe the amount of destruction that happened in less than 12 hours.

  • cooljacob204@kbin.social
    73·
    1 year ago

    How could this have happened? Shouldn’t all the building codes we have effectively prevent something like this???

    • nero@lemmy.world
      23·
      1 year ago

      Lahaia town is a historic town (as stated in the article), so i assume they did not yet have the same standards as they do today yet.

    • HangryHobbit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Lahaina was a old historic town, many of the buildings weren’t updated to code. Especially on Front Street where most of the damage seems to be

    • ShustOne@lemmy.oneOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Lots of historic buildings here but even if they were up to today’s standards they wouldn’t have had a chance. This fire was fueled by drought and 80mph winds. California has tons of new buildings that burn down with winds half that speed. It was just a crazy force moving through.