The deadliest wildfires to hit the US in over a century have turned huge swathes of the island of Maui to ash and brought the lives of at the least 99 individuals.

The governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, has warned the quantity killed will rise as solely 25% of the affected space has been searched up to now.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson hears from our US correspondent Martha Kelner, who's in Maui, concerning the devastation she's seen and the questions being requested by locals a few subtle warning system that did not alert them to the approaching hazard.

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