Ah, didn't see this post. This is interesting, I wish they would have gone further into the aftermath of the damage, and if thermite was the cause of the fire's intensity one would have to then question how, especially during the hurricane winds before the fires started, people were able to scatter enough thermite throughout Maui and Lahaina, unnoticed and without the winds blowing it all away, and in proper placements to inflict the same thermite-fire damages to every vehicle that was burned out like that.

edit- this has me thinking, perhaps thermite wasn't needed to be precisely placed, but maybe just randomly mixed within the fires to ensure that it lit certain areas, and to keep the temps hot enough to burn everything they wanted to burn?

A counter to this would be that using thermite like this carries significant risk of burning things you didn't want burned. I'd imagine trying to control a thermite fire would be a lot harder, and they had to control these fires to protect the millionare mansions etc...

Ah, didn't see this post. This is interesting, I wish they would have gone further into the aftermath of the damage, and if thermite was the cause of the fire's intensity one would have to then question how, especially during the hurricane winds before the fires started, people were able to scatter enough thermite throughout Maui and Lahaina, unnoticed and without the winds blowing it all away, and in proper placements to inflict the same thermite-fire damages to every vehicle that was burned out like that.