The video that accompanied this telling also included a shot of a car driving along the edge of this parking lot which had it's roof on fire. I have no good explanation for that, but something on their roof was making flames - maybe they'd driven under a fallen/burning tree and snagged a branch. I appreciate that the title was not yours, and you're not saying DEW, but nonetheless a War of the Worlds evoking scenario of ray weapons is too far fetched for me. The political incompetence (religious water bureaucracy, old overburdened power poles, unchecked brush undergrowth, etc.) and government's paternalistic reflex (we know best which routes to channel you into) of this disaster are more disturbing issues than speculating about nefarious sources of otherwise explainable car fires.
The coming continued control reflex of government is going to be the kill-shot to Lahaina ever being what it was. They can't help it. They're in a position of authority; the elites are going to brainstorm for new rules and regulations to the point that the old residents (not wealthy in general) are going to be pushed down the road to other parts of the island. The somewhat bohemian whaling village of Lahaina will exist only in the trinkets sold in the gift shops.
I watched while the MSM paved over the Camp Fire (Paradise CA) and abnormal/impossible fire patterns have since been instituted - to question the details that don’t add up is considered ‘wrong’ so now we have more and people point to the precedent, “If that (freakish) fire was ‘normal’ than any and all abnormal fires are normal.”
The second video shows two cars equally toasted in a parking area with houses surrounding it on all sides but the houses and greenery are untouched, and the cars are melted. IN fact, the burn pattern in that second video is literally square - it neatly borders the sidewalk, makes a 90 degree angle and forms a squared burn pattern. NATURAL! Not.
I don’t buy the scenarios - sometimes an unnatural burn is not natural.