The wildfire that killed at least 102 people on Maui last year erupted from an earlier brushfire caused by downed power lines that firefighters believed they had extinguished, officials confirmed, Wednesday as they presented their findings on the cause of the tragedy.

A new report attempts to answer where and how the deadly 2023 fire that destroyed the Hawaii town of Lahaina began

The department is expected to give its official explanation on exactly how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century was sparked last year.

The Maui wildfire that killed more than 100 people last year and destroyed Lahaina, Hawaii, was caused by downed power lines, investigators found.

The Maui Fire Department is expected to give its official explanation on exactly how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century was sparked last year