The blazes on the island are now the country’s worst in terms of casualties for over a century, while authorities have warned that the effort to find and identify the dead is still in its early stages, as crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3 per cent of the search area.
Because the media is creating it to be a cataclysm. Who cares…
It’s the deadliest wildfire in US history. It is no less tragic or newsworthy because other disasters have killed more.