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.

  • @fxt_ryknow
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    222 years ago

    Just want to clarify that I reading this right. They’ve now counted as many as 93 killed, and search crews have only covered 3% of the search area?!

      • @fxt_ryknow
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        52 years ago

        That’s awful. I saw the death toll rising, which is terrible in of itself. But to hear what it’s climbed to and they’ve only covered 3%…that’s devistating news!!

  • Unaware7013
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    202 years ago

    And that says something, because the paradise fire wasn’t that long ago…

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    Given they were warned this would happen and did nothing to prevent it, and when it did happen they didn’t competently warn anyone, I hope they take seriously the task of gearing up for this happening again.

      • @ikidd
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        102 years ago

        Imagine your survival being dependent on letting zuck or elon have full access to you phone.

        It seems like where that’s all aiming. As far as the governments are concerned, that’s a feature, not a bug.

    • ShooBoo
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      32 years ago

      You don’t know what you are talking about.

    • blanketswithsmallpox
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      342 years ago

      The oppression and tragedy Olympics is probably the most tasteless thing you can fight about on the internet.

      • @feecoomeeq
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        -332 years ago

        Because the media is creating it to be a cataclysm. Who cares…

        • @[email protected]
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          202 years ago

          It’s the deadliest wildfire in US history. It is no less tragic or newsworthy because other disasters have killed more.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Ah there’s the whataboutisms. 🥇Here take your prize for being the most empathic person ever because you thought of something worse, congratulations!

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      There being bigger tragedies doesn’t lessen others. Especially not to the people involved.

      That earthquake is nothing compared to world war 2 but that doesn’t really mean anything does it.