Fox News host Will Cain questioned whether officials in Hawaii had suspended the Constitution Monday as he reported on deadly wildfires burning in in Hawaii.
The death toll from the fires reached 99 early Tuesday morning with more people missing as fires burned for a second straight week.
At least 1,300 people are missing while countless others have been displaced, Forbes reported. Residents in some communities have complained about a lack of leadership and communication.
On Maui resident, a man named Etan Kawika Krupnick, pleaded with the countryās leaders to āproveā the devastated community of Lahaina matters.
Kawika lost his home in the fires, he told Cain.
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The Fox News host said in an X thread, previously known as Twitter, that he was having difficulty when communicating and that officials had told him no journalists were allowed in parts of the island.
āIām in West Maui. Service is rough. Hard to post,ā Cain wrote. āBut weāre putting together stories of incredible citizens stepping up where the government has failed. And at Napili Plaza someone from the Mayor Richard Bissenās office tries to shut me down saying West Maui is a media free zone. No sir, this is America.ā
Cain added, āRight now I am nowhere near search and rescue. Iām twelve miles from Lahaina. How is the entire West Side a media free zone? Is it no longer America? Constitution has been suspended?ā
In another tweet, Cain complained of āchaos and confusionā and said residents of Maui want to tell their stories to the media and are āunhappy with leadership.ā
āAnd inspirationally, they have stepped up. I just hung with two 29-year-old girls whoāve organized an airlift to the West Side,ā Cain tweeted. āItās stunning. Planes and helicopters landing all day to bring supplies better than the government. I just saw retired firefighters volunteering to distribute goods.ā
Democratic Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told CBS News on Monday that police officers and firefighters are currently searching through Fire-ravaged areas of Maui looking for the remains of those missing.
Green said they expect to find up to 20 bodies a day for the foreseeable future.
āThey will find 10 to 20 people per day probably until they finish, and itās probably going to take 10 days,ā Green said. āItās impossible to guess really.ā
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
