Kiko and Steff Kirkman's nightmare came true. While visiting in the Bay Area, their home was destroyed in the Maui fires, and their pets died, too.
One couple was in tears at the Oakland airport trying to get back home to see if their home was still standing and their pets still alive. "The whole town is gone," Kimo Kirkman said. "If the house burned down we have nothing. We have two cars, that’s it. And what we have right here."The couple was in the Bay when fires broke out in Maui, where they live. in line at Oakland International Airport, worried sick about their home, their pets and their children.
The Kirkmans said they had been preparing to move to the San Francisco Bay Area to take a job in Castro Valley. Most of what they have left were in the two suitcases they brought back from the Bay Area, their friends, Ralph and Cindy Vitales wrote in a GoFundMe to help replace their items.
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