How many died in Maui?
Squatters. Johannesburg is returning to it’s tribal roots.
This never happened under Apartheid.
Weeks later than the Maui conflagration—and they already know the count and identity of the vagrants who died in their blaze.
Officials in HI are claiming it may take them years to identify their dead.
Granted this is tragic. But it is irrelevant to most of the people on FR. Even someone from SA would probably skip it.
There used to be a style of article called “bus plunge.” It arose because type had to be set and there was often a small space at the end of a column that was insufficient for any of the local or national news. Therefore, the editor would go to “the wire” and look for a story on a bus that plunged off a cliff or high road usually in some foreign country. Because the story had no relevance to any readers yet was tragic enough to count as “news” it could be forced to fit whatever space was left over from the real news. That’s what this fire story reminded me of. Tragic but irrelevant to anything or anyone.
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