The fire in Maui that destroyed the city of Lahaina is now officially the worst wildfire in more than a century.

At least 93 people have been killed, and authorities expect that number to continue to rise as they look for missing people among the rubble. Officials are using cadaver dogs, but they’ve only searched about three percent of the affected area as of Saturday, and there are hundreds of people still missing.

Some people even had to jump into the seat to escape the flames.

Unfortunately, some were trapped and killed in their cars as they tried to escape but were overtaken by the flames.

You can see what destruction there was here.

Drone footage reveals the extent of the destruction caused by raging wildfires that razed the historic Lahaina to the ground. pic.twitter.com/RfiR52UqSK

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One of the big questions that people are asking is why the emergency warning sirens didn’t go off and give people sufficient warning to get out. Other communications were hampered by cell and power outages.

They’re now trying to find housing for those who were displaced from their homes.

As many as 4,500 people are in need of shelter, county officials said on Facebook early Saturday, citing figures from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pacific Disaster Center.

Flyovers by the Civil Air Patrol counted 1,692 structures destroyed — almost all of them residential. Nine boats sank in Lahaina Harbor, officials determined using sonar.

The fire wiped out virtually every building in the town of Lahaina.

The cause of the wildfires is under investigation. The fires are Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster in decades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people. An even deadlier tsunami in 1946 killed more than 150 on the Big Island.

Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane, the flames on Maui raced through parched brush covering the island.

Gov. Josh Green blamed global warming.

“When fire jumped from one spot to another – there were three or four fires going on at the same time – it got seeded very quickly with those 80 mph gusted winds,” he said. “And then the fire moved at essentially a mile per minute, 60 mph down through the community.”

“That’s what a fire hurricane is going to look like in the era of global warming,” Green said.

Green said global warming is “very real for us and everywhere,” issuing a call for people to do what they can to stop and reverse its effects.

But lawyers are already beginning to look at another cause, although it’s important to note they haven’t officially determined the cause yet.

“All evidence — videos, witness accounts, burn progression, and utility equipment remaining — points to Hawaiian Electric’s equipment being the ignition source of the fire that devastated Lahaina,” Mikal Watts, whose Watts Guerra firm is among three investigating the fire, told Bloomberg.

Singleton Schreiber and Frantz Law Group firms agreed, saying their probes have reached the same conclusion — that Hawaiian Electric’s damaged infrastructure sparked the flames that destroyed the resort city of Lahaina last week.

Hawaiian Electric, which serves 95% of the state’s residents, said in a statement it has yet to determine the cause of the fires since much of the area remains closed off following the deadliest US wildfire for over a century.

The investigation is ongoing.