Bare electrical wire, leaning poles were possible cause of Maui fires

By JENNIFER  McDERMOTT,  BERNARD CONDON and MICHAEL  BIESECKER  Associated Press In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows — those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that…