The island of Maui was transformed into a hellscape after wildfires reduced entire neighborhoods to ashes, with survivors having to jump into the ocean to escape the flames burning their skin.
Two residents who were in the heart of the city of Lahaina during the fires which killed at least 36 people described the chaos as a literal ‘hell’ with screams and explosions around them as flames closed in until they had nowhere else to go but the ocean.
“I saw a couple people just running, I heard screams out of hell … explosions. It felt like we were in hell, it really was,” one of the men, who asked not to be named, told KHON2. “It was just indescribable.”
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