‘Smoke started filling the house’: Maui resident with Vancouver Island ties speaks on deadly wildfire
B.C. travellers returning home from Maui recount terrifying scenes of devastation after wildfires tore through the island, flattening homes and leaving dozens dead as the search for survivors continues.
“The power went out at 4:30 or 5 a.m., and then the gas station blew up at, like, three, and since then we’ve just been trying to outrun a fire,” Johnson said. “He started to hear it. He could hear the crackling and the smoke started filling the house,” said Carlson. “It was like, OK, that’s it. He was driving down through smoke. It was nighttime by then,” Carlson said.
“They all got shovels and started whacking the smoldering embers back, killing, making sure everything wasn’t flaming anymore,” Carlson said.And the nightmare is not over for residents, including Kekoa Lansford.
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