Humberto Cardenas said it took him and his mother roughly 2 hours to drive 2 miles to escape the fire in Lahaina last week.
, with a death toll that reached 110 Wednesday, but it devastated them in another way, said Pedro Haro, his uncle., said five homes of relatives who live in Lahaina were destroyed.Cardenas, a barista, said the apartment where he lived with his mother and two siblings was among those that burned. He and his mother left Lahaina the afternoon of Aug. 8, after the manager of their apartment complex went door to door telling residents to evacuate.
They had tried to return home to Lahaina, Cardenas learned later, but authorities didn’t let them. They are now in Oahu with other relatives, he said.Ana Haro, 50, said that before the fire, she had driven to the other side of the island to fill up her car with fuel because powerful winds had knocked out electricity to the area early Aug. 8.
The smoke made him sick, Ana Haro said, but he eventually made it to safety and is staying in a hotel on the other side of Maui.
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