
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that residents of Lahaina in Maui were prevented from escaping the horrific wildfire by barricades that were put up after electric poles were downed.
The report contains shocking details revealing that people were turned back by a crew as they attempted to flee, with several being burned alive in their cars or in the middle of the street as a result.
The report notes that some disobeyed the order and drove around the barricades, enabling them to escape and survive:
One family swerved around the barricade and was safe in a nearby town 48 minutes later, another drove their 4-wheel-drive car down a dirt road to escape. One man took an dirt road uphill, climbing above the fire and watching as Lahaina burned. He later picked his way through the flames, smoke and rubble to pull survivors to safety.
But dozens of others found themselves caught in a hellscape, their cars jammed together on a narrow road, surrounded by flames on three sides and the rocky ocean waves on the fourth. Some died in their cars, while others tried to run for safety.”
One survivor noted that if she had obeyed the order to turn around she and her children would have been cooked alive:
“The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” said Cuevas-Reyes, 38. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.”
The scenes of burned cars are truly horrific:
This latest update comes after it was revealed that authorities failed to sound sirens and warn residents they were in grave danger.
Resident Nate Baird told the AP “We needed like 10 more minutes, and we could have saved a lot of kids,” adding “If we’d just had like a 10- or 15-minute warning.”
Meanwhile, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) agents are shacking up in 5-star luxury beachfront resorts in Maui amid the agency’s botched handling of the deadly wildfire disaster.
There are still approximately 1,110 people missing.
The Daily Mail reports that FBI investigators have compiled a list of names of those who haven’t been found and will be releasing it later this week.
Joe Biden’s response to the disaster, cracking jokes and making it about himself after ignoring it for two weeks, was just downright frightening:
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