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From Civil Beat:

West Maui’s economic recovery will take years and cost billions of dollars, federal, state and county officials said during a news conference on Thursday, after touring the site of a wildfire that destroyed the town of Lahaina. The overall damage assessment of Lahaina was chillingly simple.

“It’s all gone,” Mayor Richard Bissen said. He later added: “Everything there is destroyed.”

Gov. Josh Green’s description: “It does appear like a bomb and fire went off.”

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