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*Tourists, Residents👥 Evacuated as 🔥Wildfire Spreads at Hawaii's Maui 🏝Island*

*Tourists, Residents Evacuated as Wildfire Spreads at Hawaii's Maui Island* Thousands of residents and visitors on Hawaii's Maui Island were ordered to evacuate two communities on Thursday as a spreading wildfire sent smoke billowing high into the sky, officials and local media said. The 3,000-acre brush fire in Maui's central valley was uncontrolled Thursday night, Maui Mayor Mike Victorino told a news conference. He said firefighters would monitor it overnight but that it was too dangerous to battle the blaze in the dark. "We can't fight the fire tonight," he said. "We're not going to send any firefighters into harm's way." A National Weather Service satellite photo showing smoke hanging over the island was posted on local media and social media sites. The brush fire was reported about 10:30 a.m., local time, and steady winds of up to 20 mph fanned the flames, officials said. It jumped a highway and spread across fallow fields...

Death ⚰Toll in Pakistan🇵🇰 Train Collision Rises👉 to 23*

*Death ⚰Toll in Pakistan🇵🇰 Train Collision Rises👉 to 23* The death toll from a train collision in central Pakistan rose to 23 on Friday after several people succumbed to their injuries overnight, officials said. The incident took place Thursday in Rahim Yar Khan district in Punjab province when a passenger train coming from the eastern city of Lahore rammed into a goods train that had stopped at a crossing. The accident saw mangled carriages flipped on their sides and left debris strewn by the sides of the tracks as rescuers used cranes to enable them to pick through some of the twisted wreckage. A total of 73 people are still being treated for injuries. To read full article 🔗- http://v.duta.us/_JRTZwEA