The wind-fueled blaze that swept into Lahaina “looked like Armageddon,” firefighter Aina Kohler says.
wildfire that swept into Lahaina, the deadliest wildfire in the United States in modern history, “looked like Armageddon,” Maui firefighter Aina Kohler said.
“We ran out of water,” she said in an interview Monday. “... We’re on an island, with a limited supply. And that’s what we all talk about all the time, our limited resources.”Kohler and her husband, Jonny Varona, who is also a firefighter, lived in Lahaina and their home was among the thousands lost in the fire.“Everything that could go, that came into play, that could possibly limit our resources, our help, our town, happened,” Kohler said.
“With high winds like that, you want to predict — OK, we can stop it here, let’s make a stance here. That’s what everybody was thinking,” she said.
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