“Mother Nature Hates You”

Horrifying new footage has emerged of dozens of Hawaiians flailing in the choppy water after jumping in to avoid the catastrophic wildfire that torched the town of Lahaina earlier this week.

The fire began on Tuesday, spreading quickly and ferociously. The exact cause of it remains unclear but high winds, dry conditions and low humidity exacerbated the flames.

Fifty-five people have been confirmed dead already and 1,000 remain missing three days on from the blaze.

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New video has emerged of people jumping into the ocean from wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii pic.twitter.com/c3hrR99IYR

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WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Thousands of Hawaii residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town and killing at least 36 people in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years.

The fire took the island by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where historic buildings had stood in Lahaina Town, which dates to the 1700s and has long been a favorite destination for tourists. Crews battled blazes in several places on the island Wednesday, and the flames forced some adults and children to flee into the ocean.

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— Ekta Chaubey (@EktaChaubey10) August 10, 2023

Recent forest fires in Canada and around the world have sparked fear and outrage from those who have been impacted by them. Overeager ecological activists have been quick to take advantage of this and are misleading Canadians about the probability of future fires. Large forest fires make everyone nervous, and deservedly so, but attributing every fire to climate change is both scientifically unsound and horribly opportunistic.

Most of the 667 fires that have erupted across Greece in recent weeks were started “by human hand”, the country’s senior climate crisis official has said.

As the Mediterranean country emerges from an unprecedented, 15-day period of heatwave-induced infernos, the scale of the destruction is finally being laid bare.

While weather conditions have been different from any other year – with experts calling the first three weeks of July the hottest on record – most of the fires could have been prevented, the government claimed on Friday.

Up to 450,000 Americans may have been affected by a potentially life-threatening red meat allergy caused by ticks as many doctors remain unaware of what it is or how to treat it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In new reports released on Thursday, the CDC found that between 96,000 and 450,000 Americans since 2010 may have been affected by alpha-gal syndrome. The syndrome, also known as a red meat allergy or tick-bite meat allergy, stems from alpha-gal, a sugar molecule not naturally present in humans. Instead, it is found in meat including pork, beef, rabbit, lamb and venison, as well as products made from mammals including gelatin and milk products.

Three days after a landslide destroyed a dozen hillside homes in southern California, the cause of the disaster is still unclear, even as the homes continue their slow descent into a canyon.

Sixteen people have been displaced since the land between the homes began shifting and sliding over the weekend.

A robot sent to search for the missing submersible Titan found its remains almost immediately after it went down to the site of the Titanic, the head of the team that led the search said.

Ed Cassano, the chief executive of the New York-based Pelagic Research Services, tearfully recalled sending his company’s remote operating vehicle (ROV) on what he hoped would be a rescue mission. “Shortly after we arrived on the sea floor, we discovered the debris of the Titan submersible,” he said.

Presumed human remains recovered from the wreckage of the Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard has said.

Medical professionals will formally analyse the remains which are understood to have been found within the debris from the sea floor at the site of the deep-sea vessel’s fatal implosion, which killed five people.

Debris from the lost submersible Titan has been returned to land after a fatal implosion on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic earlier this month, with the loss of all five aboard, deep in the north Atlantic.

Pieces of the mangled craft were brought ashore in Newfoundland, Canada, on Wednesday morning, in hopes of assisting an investigation into the tragedy and answering questions about the craft’s experimental design, safety standards and lack of certification.

An international group of agencies is investigating what may have caused the Titan submersible to implode while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage, and U.S. maritime officials say they’ll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide.

Investigators from the U.S., Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on the probe of the June 18 accident, which happened in an “unforgiving and difficult-to-access region” of the North Atlantic, said U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, of the Coast Guard First District.

The US Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the undersea implosion of the Titan submersible and has not ruled out finding human remains – while also hinting that the probe could lead to criminal charges.

Captain Jason Neubauer, who is chairing the US Coast Guard investigation into the implosion of the vessel, made the comments as the search and rescue aspects of the response came to an end.

British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were killed on board the submersible, alongside the American chief executive of the company responsible for the vessel, Stockton Rush, and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

Officials investigating the doomed Titanic submersible will examine voice recordings and other data from its mothership to try to determine what happened and whether any criminality occurred, according to reports.

While the world was praying this week for a dramatic rescue of the Titan submariners, those with access to classified intelligence knew all along that the search was almost certainly futile.

A US Navy listening device had picked up the noise of what has now been described as the “catastrophic implosion” of the vessel at the time it lost contact with its mothership on Sunday.

The founder of OceanGate dismissed warnings that he was risking passengers’ lives on his dives as “baseless cries”, newly unearthed emails show.

Leading submersible operators had warned Stockton Rush about the risks involved, with one telling him he was placing people on board in a “dangerous dynamic” through his refusal to adhere to industry standards.

But Rush said the fears were alarmist. “We’ve heard the baseless cries of ‘you’re going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult,” he emailed Rob McCallum, founder of EYOS Expeditions.