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Hawaii governor declares emergency for Maui wildfires
By Reuters | Honolulu
PUBLISHED ON JUL 13, 2019 02:22 PM IST
Although most of the evacuees were later allowed to return home, the blaze more than tripled in size to spread over about 9,000 acres (3,642 hectares), scorching mostly former sugarcane fields and brush.