People were dumping and oceans to try to save themselves. People got burned alive in cars . Um, the devastation. Is I'm having nightmares because of it . It was supposed to be a dream trip. Sherri Atwell and her husband, Greg, were in Maui for her birthday. It turned into a nightmare. The trip started last Saturday. Everything was good until Monday morning. The wildfire is deadly path caught up with the Metro Detroit native . And about five o'clock in the morning. My husband said that The power went out. And being from Michigan Pontiac area, blah, blah, blah. Um you figure you're a day or two. Everything's gonna be fine. But it wouldn't be fine. The search for food started from their 12th floor, hotel room and Kaanapali Resort area in west Maui, just a few miles north of Lahaina, which saw the brunt of the burn. We're having to cook all of our meals. And the barbecue girls which were done by propane. Um you had to wait in long lines for food. The food would run out as fast as clean water, leaving the island overflowing with fear . It was time to get out. United Airlines, sending in loads of supplies, emptied the planes and then picked up people to get them back to safety. Sherry is back home in Tennessee, where she lives now, but she has one fear for the people left behind. Developers will come into Lahaina. And build condos and hotels, displacing the natives that they don't do that, because if they do, that's just going to leave everybody in Lahaina, Um without homes, they'll be homeless because
