This community went through. Tonight, we are inside the fire zone in maui. For the first time, we see the images captured by two captains who answered the call for help from the water. The coast guard telling them people, families, and children were in desperate need. Tonight, they take us back by water to where they helped those fighting to survive, including a young brother and sister. Their entire bodies covered in soot. And tonight, abc news with a minutebyminute look at how this deadly disaster unfolded. Our indepth timeline. Hourbyhour, putting the pieces of this tragedy together. So much time went by, as the fires grew. Why werent there more alerts . Why were the sirens not sounded . Tonight, authorities defending their reason not to use them. The two Boat Captains describing the moment the coast guard sent them in, telling them, we need help. They could feel the heat, the smoke, and the wind as they pulled into the harbor. Tonight, investigators and what theyre now learning abo
were sent when they should have been. and whether sirens should have been sounded. around midnight that night, those two captains, riley and travis, arrive in that harbor. only to find the raging fires and the blinding smoke. a week later, they re aware they were not the only ones who raced in to help. a lot of people here did a lot of heroic work, huh? the community has been amazing on the response side. i mean, there was other boats out here that night. we re not the only ones. that was one of the most amazing things out of this, to watch how fast the community came together and rose up, and it was instant, and it was everybody. david: i think the whole country is thinking about the people of lahaina and maui and got to do something to honor all these families here. i hope so. david: you know, those two captains telling me that that young brother and sister have been reunited with their parents. the parents were found down the way on front street from where the children wer
people who jumped in the water to just to survive this and who were huddled along front street here. we were expecting the worst on the way in, so we had we had big spotlights up, flashlights searching. it was there was so much smoke in the air, your flashlight beam would only go about 100 feet or so. david: as we look at it here, you can see that people had no place to go, other than the water or the one road out of town. yeah. david: i mean, they were trapped. sorry. david: it is still too raw. captain riley coons is a third generation hawaiian, and captain travis dewater. they were both there that night. it looked like a zombie apocalypse, everything was on fire. everybody was just covered in soot. david: their faces were covered in soot from the fire? yeah. i mean, everything. david: everything. everybody was kind of covered in soot. david: so many people who were actually even in the water were holding a t-shirt up to their face just to breathe through