the news out of Maui and the death toll climbing to 111 overnight as we learn more about what may have sparked the first fire the Albany test starts us off with the latest good morning GL ory hey Michael good morning yeah for the first time we're seeing new videos now of what may have started these fires in the first place and they seem to point to downed power lines it's all part of the investigation as the heartache here just grows this morning as the death toll continues to grow on Maui new video surfaces raising questions
as to what may have sparked the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S history 111 people now confirmed dead hundreds unaccounted for search and rescue teams have covered 38 percent of the Impact Zone FEMA the Red Cross and the military all on the ground I can tell you it's going to be a long and costly recovery but much of that work will be done here with our local people and and watch as this security camera captures what could be an early trigger in that devastating Wildfire August 7th at 10 47 PM a day earlier you hear a
witness describe a flash that might be a tree falling on a power line it's windy and then there's a Flash and I think that's when a tree is falling on a power line the power goes out one expert saying those videos take in an up country Maui show the Flames spreading and maybe the first evidence of downed power lines igniting a fire we've got that video of that kind of explosion and we've got 10 sensors in that community that show a very sharp drop in electrical voltage at precisely that same time power line just went
down by the next morning August 8th at 6 37 a.m in Lahaina Shane true uses a garden hose to battle a fire awesome online that started started from up the road there and all of that is still burning authorities declaring that brush fire under control around 9 A.M but then lost control of the Flames hours later when the winds caused a flare-up to spread by 5 PM lahaina's historic Front Street Up in Flames the power company saying it is still investigating what triggered the fire adding the cause has not been determined the loss weighing heavy
as families are now being asked to provide DNA to account for the dead overnight we spoke to the family of bull Makai astorus Lozano the 28 year old still missing since last Tuesday his mother telling us police visited her home to swab for DNA I want to hang on to the hope that he's alive but after doing something like this like how do you hold on to that and the president and first lady plan to visit Maui on Monday now FEMA has promised full support for the survivors who just have lost everything they say they
need those survivors though to apply for that support so far they say only 1300 households have applied Michael he as much support as we can give they can use GL thank you so much for that when George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our Channel and don't forget to download the ABC News app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching
