At least 36 people have died after wildfires, fanned by winds from a faraway hurricane, devastated much of the resort city Lahaina on Hawaii's Maui island, the Maui County said in a statement late on Wednesday.

Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/world/2023/08/10/hawaii-wildfires-kill-36-as-apocalypse-hits-resort-city/

Brushfires on the west coast of Hawaii's Maui island -- fueled by high winds from a nearby hurricane -- broke out Tuesday and rapidly engulfed the seaside town of Lahaina.

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/death-count-in-us-hawaii-wildfire-rises-to-53-officials-4288334

Hawaii's Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, is erupting again and providing a spectacle that includes bursting lava fountains and lava "waves," but no Big Island communities are in danger.

Source: https://www.onenewspage.com/n/Front+Page/1zpjux1mpb/Hawaii-volcano-roars-back-to-life-with-waves.htm

In August, Hawaii's historic royal seat of Lahaina was leveled by a wildfire.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-12-forest-year.html

The death toll made the inferno, which erupted on Tuesday, Hawaii's worst natural disaster in history, surpassing a tsunami that killed 61 people in 1960, a year after Hawaii became a US state.

Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/maui-wildfire-now-uss-deadliest-century

This image taken from video provided by the NAOJ & Asahi Shimbun, shows spiral swirling through the night sky from Mauna Kea, Hawaii's tallest mountain.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-camera-captures-night-sky-spiral.html