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- Dwayne Johnson and Oprah Winfrey have helped establish a fund for victims of the Maui fires.
- The wildfires have claimed 115 lives.
- Searches for missing people are still ongoing but are almost concluded.
Dwayne Johnson and Oprah Winfrey have helped establish a fund for victims of the Maui wildfires, according to The New York Times. The two stars have given $10 million to help the victims.
The fund will give payments of $1200 a month to Maui residents who were impacted and displaced by the fires. The fund is called the People's Fund of Maui and is focused on people who lost their homes during the disaster.
Winfrey said in a video that they met with community leaders of Hawaii to figure out how they could help, according to NBC.
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"Oprah lives here in Maui, I was raised in these islands. My family are buried in these islands. It's going to take a long time to rebuild," Johnson, who is of Samoan descent, said in the video.
A statement from the fund read:
Johnson also said in a press release:
Authorities are still busy with searching and recovering victims of the fires that raged in Lahaina, part of the Maui county in Hawaii, according to USA Today. The confirmed death toll is 115.
The wildfires broke out on 8 August and were aggravated by a hurricane that caused intense winds, according to CBS.
