Ammon News - With 89 confirmed deaths in the Maui wildfires, which were swept by extreme winds into the town of Lahaina, the disaster officially becomes deadlier than California’s Camp Fire in 2018, which killed 85.

That notorious California fire was also swept by high winds into the small mountain communities of Concow, Paradise and Magalia in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Paradise and Concow were almost destroyed.

Until Saturday the fire had been the deadliest in American history in the last 100 years, officials have said.

The Camp Fire ignited on Nov. 8, 2018, and had “extreme rates of spread” due to dry conditions and high winds, state fire investigators have said.

It began in Pulga, and a second point of ignition was vegetation that went into power lines, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said in 2019. It was ignited by a fault electric transmission line and winds drove it into the communities, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has said. Pacific Gas & Electric later pleaded guilty to 84 manslaughter counts.

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