In mid -August 2023, stories that a fire on the island of Maui, whose victims of more than 100 people, was arranged intentionally with the aim of capturing lands became popular on the network. We found out if there are grounds for such statements.

Forest fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui raged on August 7 and 8, and extinguishing individual sections It took More than ten days. Fire almost completely destroyed the coastal city of Lahaina. By 24 August It is known About 115 dead, according to various estimates, from 1000 to 1100 people were listed as missing.

Several narrates about this event at once became viral in Runet between August 12 and 23. The essence of all comes down to the fact that the fire was not a natural disaster, but a business of human hands. The fact that a certain ray of death could be his cause was written, in particular, Telegram channels "Invasion" (52,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Sirius 888" (17 500) and Qanonymous (4200), Tiktok users also laid out the rollers about the mysterious beam (one of them scored 845 000 Views, the other - 533,000). Channels also wrote about the alleged or even proven man -made firewood "Russia now"(286,000 views),"Lost past" (128,000; it is specified that the UN is behind the incident, which wants to “rebuild Hawaii again with its green stable technologies in the name of the climate”) and “Signal”(72,000; the authors talked about the Chinese satellite laser). How assures The Tsargrad TV channel (30,000 views), American journalists came to the conclusion that "the disaster was carefully prepared and planned." As an explanation of its reasons anonymous channels Offer the version that Thus “Globalists cleanse the lands for their needs”, plots on Hawaii already Started To buy up American billionaires and celebrities, and the mansions of Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos did not touch the fire mysteriously.

Video, on the basis of which users began to make assumptions about the unbearable reasons for the fire on the Maui, before getting into Runet, widely Distant on the English -speaking Internet. In the video, a series of explosions and flashes is captured a little more than a minute, which are also jumping along power lines. In the video you can notice a gas station with a logo that is very similar to the SHELL logo. Using the service for verification of the Invid video, “checked” broke the video into frames and found one of them in higher quality. Search for this image led to an original video.

Shots from the video, the original video source in an article about the accident in Louisian

It was shot on December 27, 2019 in the city of Kenner in the American state of Louisian. Local resident Giovanni Bommarit captured a series of electric flashes on power lines, reason which became an accident at the transformer substation. On complete the video is visible both the shell is located On the opposite side, the gas station Exxon. This video has nothing to do with the events of Maui in August 2023, like a number of other photos and videos that have become popular in the English and Spanish-speaking Internet and analyzed by factor from Associated Press And Lead Stories.

Message The Tsargrad television channel was illustrated by another video - news plot The Hawaiian television channel Khon 2 News, published on April 27, 2023 (the Russian media that the video was four months). The host reads a message from the US Army Corps and warns the audience that from April 28 to 30, from midnight to 5 in the morning, the residents of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu can see green laser flashes, since the corps will carry out topographic work. Among other things, the presenter notes that these laser flashes are safe for unprotected eyes. That is, this video is not related to fires on Maui.

At the same time, the energy weapon, which is mentioned in many posts and to which lasers may include, is quite real. USA and other countries Explore its potential use, which is openly reports Accounts Chamber of the American Government. However, the use of such weapons is still under a big question, and the development is at the level of prototypes for field tests. In addition, modern lasers, the power of which is high enough to cause a fire, work in an infrared range, so they cannot be seen with the naked eye. About this in an interview with AP told Ian Boyd, director of the National Security Center for National Security of the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Allegations of the "miraculous" mansions of businessmen Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, as well as the 44th US President Barack Obama in detail dismantled Our colleagues from AFP. Mansion Bezos is located at a distance of 25 miles (40 km) from the fire zone, and estate Obama is located generally on the other island of the archipelago, Oha. There are no data on any real estate in the Maui owned by Bill Gatesu in open sources, and in the photo spreading users of social networks, depicted The possessions of the founder of Microsoft are not in Hawaii, but in the state of Washington. The news about the purchase of land plots with American billionaires or stars published in authoritative sources over the past three weeks, “verified” did not find.

The distance between the islands of Maui and Oahu is more than 100 km

The version of the deliberate arson organized by China, the UN, “globalists” or someone else, refutes two more facts. Firstly, on August 6, on the eve of the tragedy, the representative office of the US National Meteorological Service in Honolulu released warning About the high risk of fires in Hawaii. The danger was explained by a combination of several factors: dry weather, insufficient humidity and strong winds. Secondly, environmentalists and climatologists note that Maui has been suffering from drought for several years. The “exceptional” winds on the island, as well as a hurricane of Dora, went to the southwest of the Hawaiian archipelago, and many flammable herbs brought by a person, not adapted to the local climate and growing in dangerous proximity to forests, together became the ingredients of the “perfect recipe for the disaster”-such an assessment of such an assessment in the interview Science.org ecologist Karl d'Antonio From the University of California in Santa Barbar.

There is no official conclusion of the American authorities about the causes of a fire on Maui yet. How reports The Washington Post newspaper, video evidence in combination with electricity monitoring data indicates that the most likely cause of steel flaws The local energy system - at Hawaii Electric, which ensures the energy supply of the island, was not approved an algorithm for turning off the supply of electricity in conditions of increased fire hazard. Together with the fact that many power lines were drawn between the thickets of trees, this, according to experts, could become the main cause of the fire. As of August 24, 2023 against Hawaii Electric Submitted At least four claims, which claimed that the company has shown negligence and is responsible for the beginning of fires on Maui.

Thus, there is no evidence of the malicious preparation of fires at the Maui by the time of publication of this analysis, and the corresponding statements distributed on social networks, often accompanied by photos and videos, are nothing more than comprehension or purposeful distortions. The most likely causes of the disaster are the heat, drought, an imperfect system for disconnecting power lines in extreme conditions and a hurricane Dora, which at that time passed next to Hawaii.

Photo on the cover: Stop frame from the video