Maui: Another Sign of the Times?

I suppose the wildfire, that consumed most of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui, is likely to be added to the list of recent extreme weather-associated events. After all, there have also been wildfires in Canada, California, Greece, France and Portugal and many other places (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/14/hawaii-fires-lahaina-maui-death-toll-missing). The Lahaina fire is, however, a little different from many of the other recent events. Most of the other fires involved forest or woodland. Maui's fire seems to have moved with incredible speed, probably accounting for the already high (but climbing) death toll. The fire seems to have started on disused agricultural land on the outskirts of Lahaina. That land was presumably disused because local agriculture in that area had become a non-viable option. The grasses that had grown in that neglected (presumably non-irrigated) location had dried out. Once the fire had ignited, the strong winds (another feature intensified by climate change) spread the conflagration with life- and property-threatening consequences. The basic 'take home message' must be that people in all parts of this planet have to realise that conditions are changing. There has to be forward planning to deal with the new risks arising from rampant climate change. There can be no such thing as a location that can be simply 'left to its own devices'.