This is conspiracy theory nonsense. Dry, hot, extremely windy. Sparks carry a long way. Dry grass burns easily. I’ve talked to people and woodland firefighters that tell me trees that have no fire near them will simply explode from the high heat nearby.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled MORE EVIDENCE - 2 Miles from Lahaina Fire A Melted Car Surrounded by Gravel! D.E.W. or What? (IMAGES from video and video links), vpintheak wrote: This is conspiracy theory nonsense. Dry, hot, extremely windy. Sparks carry a long way. Dry grass burns easily. I’ve talked to people and woodland firefighters that tell me trees that have no fire near them will simply explode from the high heat nearby.
The car itself is in a gravel parking lot. Even if there had been a patch of grass beneath it there wouldn't be enough fuel to burn hot enough and evenly enough and long enough to burn the car to ashes. While trees may explode from the high heat near by, there was no high heat near this car as the closest is scrub grass in the pics.
"Hawaiian Electric Company said that power lines falling in high winds seem to have caused a fire during the early morning of August 8, but power lines in West Maui had been de-energized for more than six hours by the time a second afternoon fire began in the Lahaina area." CNN yesterdayIt need not be D.E.W. but the grassfire was not sufficient, or near enough to the car to toast it.