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Maui County has sued the electric company Hawaiian Electric over the fires that devastated Lahaina.

On Thursday, Maui County said the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions.

Witness accounts and videos have indicated that sparks from power lines ignited fires as utility poles snapped in the winds, which were driven by a passing hurricane.

The deadly fires on August 8 have killed at least 115 people and left an unknown number of people missing, making them the deadliest in the US in more than a century.

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