“When your children and [you] are here starving after almost burning to death and the police won’t let people drive in to give you necessities, you may turn to desperate measures,” a resident…
— leaving them begging for a greater response from authorities as thieves make off with vital supplies.
Jeremy Aganos, who owns the restaurant Coconut Caboose — one of the few buildings that survived the fires on Front Street in Lahaina —Some Maui residents claim they have been looted and robbed at gunpoint as wildfires have destroyed parts of the island.An Oregon resident told the outlet that their relative flew into Maui to donate water, food, household items and clothing — only to be robbed at gunpoint soon after his arrival.
Nearly 100 people have been reported dead so far from the catastrophic fires, with the death toll only expected to rise.“I mean, they’re going through houses — and then by day it’s hunky dory. So where is the support? I don’t think our government and our leaders, at this point, know how to handle this or what to do,” he said.
Some residents have slammed local officials for their alleged lack of leadership as communities struggle to find food, water and shelter after the wildfires.Kami Irwin, a Maui resident helping to coordinate relief efforts, told Insider that locals began neighborhood patrols and distributing supplies when they realized they were only seeing volunteers — not government officials — coordinating aid efforts.
“I haven’t even had time to watch the news, but people are telling me on the mainland that, from the videos that I’m sharing, that it is way worse than what the news is even sharing,” Irwin said. “We have so many people that are missing and unaccounted for. It’s an actual horrific nightmare that you just cannot wake up from. It’s beyond words.”
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