The state wants to work with Airbnb to make sure that rental homes can be made available for locals. Mr Green hopes that the company will be able to provide three- to nine-month rentals for those who have lost homes.
An additional 500 hotel rooms will be set aside for workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some hotels will carry on with normal business to help preserve jobs and sustain the local economy, Mr Green said.
He spoke as federal emergency workers picked through the ashen remains left by the fire that razed the centuries-old town of Lahaina. Teams marked the ruins of homes with a bright orange “X” to indicate an initial search, and “HR” when they found human remains. At least 2,200 buildings were damaged or destroyed in West Maui, Mr Green said, nearly all of them residential. Across the island, damage was estimated at close to $6 billion .
The cause of the wildfires is under investigation. The fires are Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster in decades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people. An even deadlier tsunami in 1946, which killed more than 150 on the Big Island, prompted development of a territory-wide emergency alert system with sirens that are tested monthly.
“It outpaced anything firefighters could have done in the early hours,” US Fire Administrator Lori Moore-Merrell said.
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