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Evacuee Jamie Brown described his experiences on Wednesday (August 9) after wildfires fanned by winds of a distant hurricane killed dozens and devastated much of the resort city Lahaina on Hawaii's Maui island, forcing thousands to evacuate. - REUTERS
Transcript
00:00 Oh my gosh, look at the harbor.
00:02 Oh my gosh!
00:09 Got home about 4 o'clock yesterday from work.
00:12 Smoke in town.
00:14 My son and his girlfriend and two kids were at the house and we evacuated immediately.
00:22 No cell phone coverage, no internet, no way to contact the outside world.
00:27 And we got to this side of the island about midnight last night.
00:31 My wife and dog slept in the parking lot at Whole Foods.
00:38 Woke up this morning and got on our phones to pictures of our house just down to the slab.
00:47 Nothing but smoke and cinders.
00:50 Came with the clothes we got on and a dog and two kids.
00:54 Here we are.
00:55 This looks like Baghdad or something.
00:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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