Historic town of Lahaina ‘destroyed’ by Maui fire | GMA

that historic town of Lahaina it is once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii and now it's in ashes and we have deep ties here to that town at GMA Becky Worley was raised on Maui and she's live with more on how communities are coming together good morning Becky Rebecca good morning Maui is home I went to school grade school in Lahaina and I also spent a lot of time up country in Kula that's where we are now there was a totally separate fire up the mountain on the slope of Haleakala raging at the same time friends and family telling you how it terrorized them as these insane winds blew across the mountain when I came up I found hundreds maybe thousands of Acres of burned land and forests pockets and neighborhoods with homes totally decimated like this and even some evacuees from the Lahaina fire the people of Maui starting to dig out it's an unthinkable reality and for shalina Barrios who with her husband and two small children literally ran for their lives from the Lahaina fire I think the thing that sticks out the most the problem when we were sitting on the rocks and we were just hoping for a shift in the wind or something to change it was a lot it was a lot but you know everyone's safe she evacuated to the up country area of Kula which simultaneously experienced a different fire and the community here still on edge I'm here every day until they throw me out tree fell over hit the power lines and that's what started the fire Russ who lived in his home for 40 years said he and neighbors fought all day to keep the fire from spreading we had a hard time holding it back but we're still we were winning the game and then the water turned off and if it wasn't anything we could do then the Sparks were blowing up out of The Gulch it's a community left to pick up the pieces like Nancy Garnett crazy I can't even it's just too much I've lost friends and I've just I've been here 48 years and I've never seen anything like this in my entire life I look around at the hundreds if not thousands of Acres burned it's a place where I attended High School hiked through these Hills and while not everywhere in places it's unrecognizable scorched smoking people bringing food for all of the emergency responders and the folks working on homes on culilani street where six homes burned to their foundations I see this Dad sifting through the rubble looking for the wedding rings that he and his wife had in a jewelry box any luck with the ring oh can we see at least one we're still looking for the other one big much right now wow but it's here wow you can even see the engraving so not much but it's something so it's a small things right we're good and I'm reminded of this community's resilience [Music] but they were Angels yesterday a big for the bottom of my heart and my family thank you so much so many people asking how they can help how they can donate we have a QR code on our screen you can scan that with your phone and it'll take you to a list of Charities that are approved it's also on our website the Maui United Way and Hawaii strong two foundations being mentioned here on island and I just have to tell you Rebecca it's just so otherworldly to be here amidst a disaster of this scale it's just insane I think of all the people in that beautiful town when my mom and I were on the phone first thinking of the town destroyed we just cried it felt like a piece of my childhood in ashes and now as we think about all those people it's beyond anything that my my mind can wrap around it is beyond words Becky we have been thinking about you and all of those people well hey there GMA fans Robin Roberts here thanks for checking out our YouTube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the Subscribe button right over right over here to get more of Awesome videos and content from GMA every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on GMA

Channel: Good Morning America

Views: 50,344

Keywords: ABC, GMA, Hawaii, Lahaina, Maui, News, US, and, blaze, home, p_cmsid=2494279, p_vid=news-102191951, rescue, search, weather, wildfire

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Length: 4min 33sec (273 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 11 2023