Lahaina resident tells of desperate escape with cars stopped, wall of fire in rearview mirror
LA TimesBryce Baraoidan, in a diving mask and bandanna for protection, climbed to the roof of his family’s Lahaina home to record the wildfire and battering winds. They had nothing to rely on but their five senses and what he called the “coconut telegraph”: friends and neighbors running up and down the street warning, “the fire’s a mile away,” “half a mile,” “a few blocks.” When they finally made the decision to flee, they drove straight into the nightmare of what surely will go down as the deadliest traffic jam in U.S. history. There were so many cars behind me.” VIDEO | 00:19 In rearview mirror, Lahaina goes up in flames Bryce Baraoidan captured video as he waited in a traffic jam while fire consumed the town he grew up in. “It’s going to go way, way higher” than that, Baraoidan said. “I don’t know what the government is doing behind the scenes, so I don’t want to assume they’re not doing anything,” Baraoidan said.
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