Forbes Daily: Death Toll Grows From Maui Wildfires

This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletter, you can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. The wildfires raging in Maui are a “major disaster,” President Joe Biden declared on Thursday, sending federal aid for recovery efforts. The death toll rose to 53, and major U.S. airlines like United and American are providing planes to Hawaii’s second-largest island to assist with evacuations. Experts believe that flammable shrubs and grasses and dry conditions, combined with wind gusts from Hurricane Dora several hundred miles southwest of Hawaii,...