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Maui fires live updates: Death toll now 93 amid search for missing
Updates as rescue crews search for people still missing in Hawaii after the devastating wildfires.
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A Hawaii resident said he was angry with the government for failing to activate sirens and delivering proper alarms for residents to evacuate.
“No alarms, no warning, nothing,” Rafa Ochoa told NBC Nightly News, “not even police rolling by telling us to evacuation or anything.”
The Hawaii Emergency Services Administration said Friday that no outdoor warning sirens were triggered by either Maui or Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
“We’re mad,” Ochoa said with tears in his eyes. “We lost our homes. We lost our town. Lost history. Our kids are traumatized. You guys messed up real bad.”
Marination, one of the most popular Hawaiian restaurants in Seattle, raised around $40,000 last weekend for people affected by the wildfires, according to NBC affiliate KING of Seattle.
The restaurant's co-owner Kamala Saxton said she wanted to send help to Maui after seeing the heart-breaking destruction in the Aloha State. So, she decided to sell over 3,000 Spam musubi, an iconic Hawaiian snack, at $4.75 each this weekend to raise money.
“Seeing Spam musubi almost makes you feel at home,” Saxton said. “Then you eat and you’re like this is a piece of home. This is something that just brings you back to your childhood, back to family gatherings, back to luaus.”
She donated all the funds to Maui Rapid Response and Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, two organizations supporting frontline emergency response, KING reported.
“We are keeping them in our thoughts,” Saxton added. “We are doing everything we can to help them, and this is just the start, and it won’t stop. We feel their pain and we are with them.”