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The Hawaiian Electric company is said to have failed to shut off power despite a recent drought and high winds.

Witness accounts say power lines ignited fires as utility poles snapped in hurricane winds

Lawsuit alleges utility company knew high winds ‘would topple power poles, knock down power lines, and ignite vegetation’

The civil suit filed Thursday seeks a jury trial and "punitive and exemplary damages" to recoup costs and loss of revenue from the deadly wildfires.

During the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, a developer of land around a threatened Maui community urgently asked state officials for permission to divert stream water to help fight the growing inferno

KLAS-TV in Las Vegas raised an additional $134,253 and the Nexstar Media Charitable Foundation donated $20,000 to the effort

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"There was a neighbor who sent a note to us and said, 'Oh, you won the lottery,'" Trip Millikin, whose house survived, told NPR. "And I almost wanted to throw up when I got that."

As the world warms and the climate changes, people are experiencing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Just this year, heatwaves blasted southern Europe, the United States and China; wildfires lit up Greece, Canada and Maui in Hawaii; and winter storms froze large parts of the US.

Authorities have confirmed 115 deaths following the deadliest wildfire in more than a century in the United States

Theresa Cook, 72, of El Dorado County, was among eight more people identified as victims