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Im here on the road to lahaina. This is as close as we can get to the community. And what i want to show you right now is the scene here. If we just move over here i want to give you a picture of these dry conditions here on the island of maui. You can see there the dry grass, the drought here, which has been a persistent problem for many months. You can also see the high winds. And these high winds really have been an issue in fanning those flames and they are leading to more concerns, ever present concerns from authorities about the prospect for flare ups in these places. Im going to move out of the way so you can look over my shoulder here. What you can see is this is the last Police Check Point here on the road to lahaina here, everyone on the road here is stopped and asked questions about why they are going on. And many people are then forced to turn around in this lane here and essentially turned back, because right now ....
It was time to go because they saw the smoke coming and i knew the wind was strong enough it was most likely going to take outthe town. the hardest thing about that for the owners of the houses, luckily i am a renter, but the owners of the houses, they don t want to accept their house is going to burn down. so it s hard for the people to get out of the house. lahaina is a small town, it has a strong community, this on the songs i ve ever seen in a sound, so it is impossible to get out of the house. this hat is the only thing that made it of mind. i ve just recently started riding bulls, so it was a big sign to me that i said just keep doing what i want to do and keep pushing through no matter what. that was in my truck and my truck was completely melted to the ground. i have seen you out here with your friends and the truck and you have lost everything, and yet here you are trying to get help to other people, which is just absolutely remarkable. is enough help getting into lahaina? abs ....