The deadliest wildfires to hit the US in over a century have turned huge swathes of the island of Maui to ash and brought the lives of no less than 99 folks.

The governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, has warned the quantity killed will rise as solely 25% of the affected space has been searched thus far.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson hears from our US correspondent Martha Kelner, who’s in Maui, in regards to the devastation she’s seen and the questions being requested by locals a few subtle warning system that didn’t alert them to the approaching hazard.

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