Many of the stranded travelers trying to fly out of Maui are from the Tri-State area.
"It was very scary because there was a lot of smoke," said Kate Storms, who is a Dobbs Ferry resident, to Eyewitness News. "There was a lot of smoke. I could see it right from the car. There was a whole highway of people also seeing that."
The family eventually made it to a Walmart, where they and locals have been picking up supplies. They slept a second night in that parking lot.With fires threatening their hotel, the Iona University professor and his family spent hours on a golf course parking lot. "The one option was there is one road you can take out of town. It's very tricky, very rough and you can't do it at night," said Damergis. "It was an ominous feeling."
"They were in tears as their family and friends had lost their homes in the area," said Damergis. "And yet a lot of them didn't have homes to go to, but were still showing up to work to feed the people and to help the people that were all evacuating the area."
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