Sirens on this i island. And why that wasnt activated, because it clearly would have given people more time to escape the flames and get out of town. And, of course, the number of fatalities would probably not be the number that it currently is. Another big challenge here, mike, is housing. Why . Theres not much of it. Its expensive to rent or own. And unlike, say, the mainland there are not any towns that can simply absorb 4,500 people right now that need shelter. Lahaina was really small, nice historical place, and its gone. All the kind of, like, precious memories of my kids and kind of generational stuff. Reporter so eva adams, she lost her home. It was in this new 89unit, Affordable Housing complex that is now, of course, as you see, just ashes. There are about 2,700 buildings here that were destroyed in lahaina, 86 of those were homes. And the community of lahaina is a very working class, a lot of Native Hawaiians who serve the resorts, and right now those people who are now home
town, and it s completely gone, you know? it breaks your heart to also realize that while so many thousands fled and are now in shelters trying to figure out what to do next with their life, so many still remain. right there. and we have a responsibility, an obligation and a duty to collect those remains, to find all of our loved ones, to bring everyone home this one way or another. and it was a very surreal, painful moment to walk through those streets yesterday. mike: hawaii has warning sirens in the maui area. did the system not work properly, or was it more a matter of how quickly the fire spread? you know are, when you go in there and then when you see these videos, you realize just how past that fire spread. and i talked to survivors who said it was just whipping and coming so quickly, and it was burning hot. we do have those warning sirens up, everyone knows them the, we test them once a month. we really know them as tsunami