evidence: Michael Clark, a wildland firefighter based on Oahu, soon decided he had seen enough. He made a post of his own, responding to a TikTok claiming that the fires were a "direct energy weapon assault." "Every year, there’s some conspiracy theorist out there that says, ‘These fires were started by laser beams,’ and, ‘How come the houses are flat but the trees are still standing?’" Clark said in a video posted to his Instagram Saturday. "It’s just something so gross. … You’re trying to get views and clicks off a horrific event. Like, the death toll is still rising, and you’re out there saying that this was started by laser beams?" [...] More on the Maui wildfires - Why news anchors go to disasters like the wildfires in Hawaii - How journalists in Hawaii are covering (and coping with) the Maui wildfires - Why climate experts are criticizing a Hawaii headline from ABC News - Fact-checking a bizarre claim that government ‘direct energy weapons’ caused the Maui fires - A shortened video distorts Hawaii governor’s comments about the state buying land in Lahaina