Seward resident Judy Odhner asked someone in Maui to post a note on a board outside an evacuation center, looking for her Aunt Annie.
A wildfire burns in Kihei, Hawaii late Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Thousands of residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years. But when wildfire ripped through the community and other parts of Maui, it knocked out the usual lines of communication, causing family members in Alaska to worry when they hadn’t heard from their loved ones.
” So I kind of started putting my feelers out to find her.: Yeah, it was this simple note. So she called my sister on Friday night, she went to the airport in Kahana. And apparently when she called us, she didn’t have any power or cell service , but she was grateful to have two working flashlights. So we could hear that bit of joy, and it just brought us some joy and just smiles that she’s OK.
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