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It started with a spark on a windy Hawaiian afternoon—a broken power pole, dry grass, and a fire that would go on to kill more than 100 people and erase a historic community from the map. But in the days after the 2023 Maui wildfires, another kind of fire was spreading, one that moved through phone screens and comment sections faster than any flame. Across Facebook, X, TikTok, and YouTube, thousands of people insisted that the fire wasn’t an accident at all. It was a “direct energy weapon,” they said, a laser aimed from somewhere in the sky, part of…

I notice you’ve asked me to summarize and humanize content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs, but the content you’ve provided is just the footer/sidebar of the NBC 7 San Diego website. It only contains standard navigation elements like social media links (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube), submit tips, newsletters, about page, news standards, legal pages (terms of service, privacy policy, public inspection file), accessibility information, employment info, FCC applications, advertising details, and a copyright notice. There isn’t any actual article, story, or editorial content here to summarize or humanize. This is simply a website’s boilerplate footer — the kind of…

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