Some Hawaii Wildfire Victims Jump Into Ocean to Escape Flames

Hawaii is America's Paradise but today a category 4 hurricane fueled raging wildfires on the island of Maui as restaurant reports those fires are so intense they've not only overwhelmed local firefighters some residents had to jump in the ocean to escape the flames it's hell on Earth raging fires on the Hawaiian island paradise of Maui a major destination for Honeymooners scenes from the island are described as apocalyptic the lieutenant governor says the hospitals are overburdened with burn patients 9-1-1 is down cell service is down phone service is down my gallery likely is destroyed I spoke to antique Steeler Alan Dakar who shot this extraordinary video of businesses going up in flames in the town of Lahaina there's a lot of people in the community that have it a lot worse Lahaina resident Mandy Ellen who is visiting Las Vegas spent a stressful night worrying about her family on Maui they're fine but her home was destroyed the fire started coming in from both directions and it was either they had to leave or they would die the Flyers are being driven by 80 mile an hour gusts from Hurricane Dora south of the Hawaiian Islands victims jumped into the ocean to escape the flames and smoke foreign [Music]

Channel: Inside Edition

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Keywords: weather, Climate Change, hawaii, animals, Inside edition, inside_edition, ie newsdesk, ie animal kingdom, climate change, natural disaster, maui, extreme weather, wildfires, pets, cat, sylvia luke, burning, fire, flames, hospitals, 911, firefighters, alan dickar, les trent

Id: CQdnk7-5CsI

Length: 1min 35sec (95 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 09 2023