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Physical therapists treat physical pathology, and do not prescribe exercises or other treatment without seeing a patient in person to complete a thorough medical evaluation due to the likelihood of causing further damage without a full understanding of the individual's pathology, which involves seeing and feeling a person's movement deficits and responses to specific verbal and tactile cues. This is coupled with extreme weather patterns connected to climate change: unusually hot and dry summers and shifts in rainfall patterns.This subreddit is for physical therapists discussing new developments or old tricks in physical therapy. Wildfires in Hawaii are now burning through more than four times the number of acres than in previous decades, according to Professor Trauernicht, at the University of Hawaii.Įxperts attribute the surge in wildfires to the prevalence of nonnative grasses, which are especially common on Maui, and are more flammable than indigenous plants. Three years later, wildfires in Maui and the Big Island tore through more than 40,000 acres of ranchland and brush. Lionel Montalvo, an official with the Maui County Fire Department, was quoted at the time saying the fire was “unprecedented in our department’s history.”

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In August 2018, a series of fires on Maui destroyed dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents and tourists.

The death toll and wrecked landscape of the town reinforced the grim reality that even corners of the globe generally blessed with plentiful rainfall - and until recently unaccustomed to powerful wildfires - are now, partly because of climate change, much more vulnerable. In one frame, he captured a single house that remained standing while dozens around it had been rendered into a sickly white ash. He filmed the scene and posted it to Facebook. And some neighborhoods were spared the flames, their lawns still green. Entire neighborhoods appeared flattened by fire, with only charred remnants remaining of homes. Olsten, the director of operations at Air Maui Helicopter Tours, flew back and forth across the devastation on Wednesday, even as smoke was still wafting over the azure waters of the Pacific.

On Wednesday, she and her partner, both 34, were sheltering at a friend’s home about 20 miles away in the town of Waikapu. In the 10 minutes it took to grab their clothes, a bicycle and their dog, the air had become so thick with smoke that they did not know which way to drive in order to get away from the approaching wildfire.

Zimmerman could smell smoke, so she and her partner decided it was time to go. Zimmerman went back to sleep.īy the time she awoke, the power was out, and Ms.

Tuesday, she saw flames in the distance and called the fire department, but it said there was no need to worry, she said. The first signs of disaster for Rachel Zimmerman were the gusts of wind that tore through her condominium, ripping the screens from her windows. The most concentrated damage appeared to be in Lahaina, once the royal capital of Hawaii and now a major tourist hub. The Coast Guard, the Navy and the Marines were supporting firefighting and rescue efforts, and the Department of Transportation was working with commercial airlines to evacuate tourists from the island. President Biden ordered all federal assets in Hawaii to assist with the fire response, the White House said. Others escaped by car, driving past flames in the shadow of the West Maui Mountains. The inferno came so quickly that some residents ran into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames. The situation was “absolutely horrific,” he said.Īt least three fires on the island were propelled by strong winds as a hurricane moved across the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles to the south. We have resources that are being taxed.”Įd Sniffen, director of the Hawaii state Department of Transportation, said some 2,000 travelers spent Tuesday night at the airport and another 4,000 people had been stranded by road closures. “We have shelters that are being overrun. The state government was trying to stop tourists from arriving on the island, but as late as Wednesday morning, flights filled with tourists were still landing in Maui, she said. Sylvia Luke said at a news conference Wednesday.

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