Travelers fleeing Maui have been arriving at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport all morning.
fueled by wildfires in Hawaii
Jules Toney lives on Whidbey island and was staying close to Lahaina, one of the hardest hit areas. She said the fire was extremely close to where she was staying, which was roughly five minutes from the popular tourist destination.“Last night we were supposed to go to a luau and on our way the sky was just black,” she described to KIRO 7. “You could see the orange glow of the fires underneath the black smoke.”“There was no power, fire trucks everywhere, there was no gas anywhere,” she recalled.
“We had to go up all around the north side of the island which took about three hours,” she said, detailing how they were given free water, food, and bathrooms as they made the long journey to the airport.“It was just like a normal vacation on the second day -- we were on the southside [of the island] and they told us that we couldn’t go back to our AirBNB because the fire was so close,” he said.“It was people laying on the floor -- it was more chaos,” he detailed.
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