A fiery nightmare is raging in Hawaii, as fires have claimed their lives at least 36 people in Maui County, while over 11,000 people were evacuated on Wednesday from the Pacific island complex.

“As firefighting efforts continue, 36 total deaths have been discovered today amid the active fire in Lachenaa popular tourist destination in Maui.

“The road the road to recovery will be long” warned an official.

Maui is the second largest island of Hawaii, with an area of ​​1,883 square kilometers. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest of the four islands of Maui County, larger than Laheina, Kahoolawe and Molokai.

A state of emergency has been declared for the Hawaiian Islandswhere many residents and tourists ran into the sea to escape the wildfires raging uncontrollably.

Houses and shops were engulfed in flames, while tourists and residents ran into the sea to save themselves. “People are jumping into the water to escape the flames,” Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara told the Hawaii News Now network.

The Coast Guard announced that rescued 12 people off Laheina. “All the boats in the port of Laheina were burnt… It looks like a scene from a war movie”said Chrissy Lovett who is in the area.

THE Claire Kentwhich stated that her house burned down in Laheinadescribed to CNN a scene of chaos, with desperate people stuck in traffic jams and “burning cars on both sides of a road.”

The island’s hospitals have been overwhelmed by burn victims and people with respiratory problems due to smoke inhalation.

The situation on the island of Hawaii is also nightmarish – also known as the Big Island (Big Island) so as not to be confused with the American state as a whole.

Amateur videos posted by residents and tourists on social media platforms capture him terror and panic prevailing in several areaswith flames leaping from paradisiacal palm groves.

About 15,000 households and businesses are without power in Hawaiiaccording to specialist website PowerOutage.

The fire fronts were strengthened by the strong winds accompanying Cyclone Dora, which nevertheless passed several hundred kilometers away from the island complex.

The American president Joe Biden announced yesterday Wednesday that directed that all available federal resources be mobilized in the Hawaiian archipelago, which is being swept by fires.

“I have directed that all available federal resources be mobilized to the islands to assist in efforts” to extinguish the fires, the Democratic president said in a press release released by his administration, adding that the Ministry of Transport is working in coordination with airlines for the hasty evacuation of tourists from the hardest-hit island of Maui.