but the speed of this. the escape routes are so limited. you have the upcountry, mountainsides and ocean and a few roads in between. once the traffic was backed up there, people nowhere to go. i talked to one gentleman, bill, famous art gallery owner here, who escaped his gallery on a motorcycle. he thinks that made all the difference because he was able to go around some of the cars. bill weir, we appreciate your reporting. we will keep watching throughout the day as the sun comes up there and they go into some of the buildings. joining us is a retired chief of the maui fire department, lionel man tall vo. thank you for being with us. i want to start here with what we are learning about alerts and warnings. you say there have been fires like this before. they were able to have been contained. how do the alerts and warnings play into the containment and minimizing the damage and were there enough here?
here s maui, seeing hot spots in maui, which is quite distressing right now. there s maui itself. these are hot spots from the satellite. not only the lahaina fire, but there s other fires upcountry here, and obviously the upcountry, a lot of people live there as well. those fires are likely affects those people as well. even some fires are on the big island. there s dora, a category 4, it s this high pressure up here that s squeezing the gradient, the appreciate rue through the islands. 82-mile-per-hour gusts. that s a gust equal to, if sustained, a category 1 hurricanes. still wind advisories in effect. the winds are still howling. by tomorrow, we re down to about 40 miles per hour, make 30, but when they fires are so large, so