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
what could be the earliest reported fire on maui. soon homes and neighborhoods fully engulfed. people desperately trying to get away. the families trapped in their cars. the historic front street of lahaina, within hours, going up in flames. and as you know, so many people jumping over the sea wall, clinging to the rocks at the edge of the water. some in that water for hours. that stretch of front street after the fire frozen in place, burned. the charred, hollowed-out frames of the buildings that once stood there. the grim search now for days here, cadaver dogs leading the way. and we have been told they are now setting up screens here across maui, in lahaina, to give search teams the privacy they need with this crucial work. tonight here, those brave captains, what they witnessed, what they did. there are so many heroes here. and tonight, there are also so many questions. could more have been done by the authorities? tonight, the images we have not seen before. the raging inferno in
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
distance. these are the images captured by two captains as they made their way into lahaina from the water, told by the coast guard, people were desperate for help. families trapped at the water s edge. so many jumping in. children among them. wading in the angry waters for hours. the ocean churning from the winds. all to escape the flames racing down the hill, some of those flames traveling a mile a minute. tonight, for the first time, we take that journey back with those captains, traveling along maui s western edge. just a haunting scene here all along front street, where so many families, and the people of lahaina, came down the hill to try to escape the flames and the heat. so many jumping in the water here just to survive. as the two captains got closer to the harbor after nightfall, they could feel the heat, the blinding smoke. we ve all seen the images of the
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