New "FBI-validated" Lahaina wildfire missing list has 385 names_我的网站
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海峡两岸客家文化交流大会在福建长汀举行，两岸约300名代表齐聚。活动以青年交流、文化传承及生态治理为重点，共话融合发展，深化血脉联系与文化认同。
“鸡公仔，鸡公仔，啄呀啄尾巴，啄到婆婆树兜下……”舞台上，长汀师范附属小学山茶花合唱团献唱的童谣《鸡公仔》，唤醒了全场客家乡亲共同的童年记忆，为海峡两岸客家文化交流大会的开场营造了温暖氛围。
嘉宾和两岸青年在活动上合唱歌曲《明天会更好》。 The number of people on the official list of those missing from the Maui wildfire stood at 385 on Friday, nearly unchanged from a week earlier.In a news release, the Maui Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said 245 people on the list of 388 made public the previous week were located and removed. However, a nearly equal number of new names were added.The updated total was a startling departure from what had been expected — a day earlier Gov. Josh Green said he believed the number would fall below 100. "We think the number has dropped down into the double digits, so thank God," Green said in a video posted to social media.After Maui police released the updated list, the governor said the numbers of fatalities and missing are often in flux in mass casualty events until investigations are completed.
"Exact numbers are going to take time, perhaps a long time, to become finalized," Green said in a statement provided through a spokesperson.He said there are less than 50 "active missing person cases." He didn't elaborate but indicated those are the people for whom more information was provided than the minimum to be on the missing list compiled by the FBI. It only requires a first and last name provided by a person with a verified contact number.A worker is seen in the fire-ravaged town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Aug. 22, 2023. Gao Shan/Xinhua via Getty Images Authorities have said at least 115 people died in the blaze that swept through Lahaina, the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in more than a century. So far, the names of 50 people have been publicly released and five others have been identified but their identities withheld because next of kin haven't been reached. The rest have yet to be identified.The flames turned the picturesque seaside town into rubble in a few short hours on Aug. 8. Wind gusts topping 60 mph ripped through the town, causing the flames to spread exceptionally quickly.
Lahaina has deep significance in Hawaiian history as the one-time capital of former Hawaiian kingdom and as the home to high-ranking chiefs for centuries. In recent decades, the town became popular with tourists, who ate at its oceanfront restaurants and marveled at a majestic 150-year-old banyan tree.Half the town's 12,000 residents are now living in hotels and short-term vacation rentals. The Environmental Protection Agency is leading an effort to clean hazardous waste left in a burn zone stretching across some 5 square miles.Reconstruction is expected to take years and cost billions.Initially more than 1,000 people were believed unaccounted for based on family, friends or acquaintances reporting them as missing. Officials narrowed that list down to 388 names who were credibly considered missing and released the names to the public last week.New names on Friday's updated list were added from the Red Cross, shelters and interested parties who contacted the FBI, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said. He urged family members of the missing to submit their genetic data to help identify their relatives."If you have a loved one that you know is missing and you are a family member, it's imperative that you get a DNA sample," Pelletier said in a video posted to Instagram.The cause of the fire hasn't been determined, but it's possible powerlines from downed utility poles ignited the blaze. Maui County has sued Hawaiian Electric, the electrical utility for the island.
The utility acknowledged its power lines started a wildfire early on Aug. 8 but faulted county firefighters for declaring the blaze contained and leaving the scene, only to have a second wildfire break out nearby.Local government officials have faced significant criticism for their response both before, during and after the Lahaina fire, one of several which sparked on Maui on Aug. 8. Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen has been vague as to his actions as the Lahaina fire was spreading. In an interview Bissen gave to local station KITV-TV, just after 6 p.m. on Aug. 8, he said, "I'm happy to report the road is open to and from Lahaina." However, Bissen was seemingly unaware that, at that point, much of downtown Lahaina was already ablaze. And while it was Bissen's job to ask the state for emergency backup, the mayor told reporters this week he did not call the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. "I can't speak to what — or whose responsibility it was to communicate directly," Bissen told CBS News this week. "I can't say who was responsible for communicating with General Hara."Major General Kenneth Hara, the director of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said in a recent interview with Hawaii News Now that he was initially unaware of crucial details about the fire. "I thought everyone had gotten out safely," he said. "It wasn't until probably the next day I started hearing about fatalities."
Amid calls for his resignation, Bissen released a video statement Thursday in which he said: "I want to be clear and repeat, that I have been present in our emergency operations center, since Aug. 7," adding he did "become aware of fatalities" until Aug. 9. "My first thoughts are, we should really get to all of the facts, whatever they may be, good or bad, that is a deeply personal discussion for any mayor and his or her constituents to have," Green told CBS News in an interview Friday when asked whether Bissen should resign. On Aug. 17, a little over a week after the fire broke out, Herman Andaya resigned from his post as chief of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, just one day after he publicly defended his controversial decision not to activate the island's warning sirens when the Lahaina fire was spreading.Andaya argued that sounding the sirens could have created confusion by sending Lahaina residents into the path of the blaze because they may have thought the sirens were signaling a tsunami, not a wildfire."The public is trained to seek higher ground in the event that the sirens are sounded," Andaya told reporters on Aug. 16."Had we sounded the sirens that night, we were afraid that people would have gone mauka (mountainside), and if that was the case, they would have gone into the fire," he added.
Andaya has since been replaced by Darryl Oliveira, a former Hawaii Fire Department chief who also served as the head of the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency.
C | 他在大会现场表示，客家文化源远流长，两岸客家青年应以影像为纽带，加强交流与合作，共同讲好客家故事、两岸故事。 从台湾苗栗客家村到北京求学、因姻缘落地福州，而后成为福州市首位事业单位聘用的台胞研究生，陈柏叡的经历令他对客家精神有了更深的理解：“客家人走得很远不是为了离开家，而是把家带到更远的地方。”
活动中，台湾时事评论员、福建农林大学客座教授赖岳谦深情讲述了跨越海峡、回到祖籍地龙岩市上杭县古田镇寻根祭祖的故事：一路倾盆大雨，他和妻子周玉琴坚持上山扫墓，山路湿滑泥泞也不退缩；进入宗祠后，他心潮澎湃，几度哽咽，拜告先祖，“您的孩子回来了”。
D | “风雨再大，挡不住客家人敬祖溯源的本心，也挡不住我弥补父辈遗憾、归宗认祖的赤诚。”赖岳谦说。回溯千年，溯的是血脉之源，更是文化之魂。 在本届大会子活动——海峡两岸水土流失治理与生态建设研讨会上，两岸水土保持专家交流经验，共同倡议科学推进水土保持；两岸客家乡亲还赴汀州客家首府海峡两岸交流基地、三洲汀江国家湿地公园、古村落等地参访，在行走中感受“客家首府”的温度与厚度。（记者 柴逸扉）。
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