Utahn Ashleen Tevaga said her family in Hawaii only had time to grab their children and dogs and run from the Lahaina fire with the clothes they had on.
“Since this started, our whole home has been consumed with finding our family members, our brothers, our childhood best friends, our cousins, aunties, uncles,” Tevaga said. “We’re all just trying to come together now to deal with what is left, which is really nothing.” Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities.
Ashleen Tevaga’s family has also been affected by fires in south Maui’s Kihei area and in the centrally located Upcountry. No fatalities have been reported from those blazes. The night Tevaga heard from her sister that Lahaina had been destroyed, she called her mother-in-law, who said, “There’s fires everywhere on the island. We don’t know where to evacuate to. There’s no safe place.”
On Sunday, Tevaga was busy gathering supplies to send to Maui, where store shelves have been cleared out. She said she’s been collecting essentials like period products, hair care items, oral hygiene items, lip balm and more, as well as items for babies and children like diapers, coloring books, blankets, toys and crayons.
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