@HeavenlyPossum

The other problem was the fire was outrunning even the fire trucks. With 80 mile an hour winds, it’s impossible to keep ahead of it. You don’t know where it will go, you can only guess. You can’t even see.

Destroying native grasslands for ranches and such played a huge part, but sugar plantations have been in Hawaii for centuries.

It was insanely bad luck the fire took the path of greatest destruction and highest density of population in its march to the water.