{"id":2009667,"date":"2023-08-23T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/residents-disobeying-official-orders-survived-maui-fires-over-1000-still-missing\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:49:23","slug":"residents-disobeying-official-orders-survived-maui-fires-over-1000-still-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/residents-disobeying-official-orders-survived-maui-fires-over-1000-still-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Many residents who ignored orders survived Maui fires, but over 1,000 remain missing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresidents-disobeying-official-orders-survived-maui-fires-over-1000-still-missing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009667&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Residents Who Defied \u2064Orders Escaped Maui \u200cWildfires<\/h2>\n<p>Multiple witness accounts reveal\u2063 that \u2062many Maui residents \u200dwho refused to follow official orders and recommendations during the wildfires managed to \u200bescape the\u2064 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires, \u200cwhich have claimed the lives\u200c of 115 people \u2064as \u2064of\u2062 Aug. 22, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mauicounty.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=12746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> from the County of Maui, created chaos in the region. With roads closed \u200bdue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-without-power-in-texas-energy-prices-climb\/\" title=\"Millions Without Power In Texas; Energy Prices Climb\">downed power lines<\/a> and wildfires, residents faced a dangerous situation. However, a\u200c report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> \u2064 suggests that those who defied barricades\u200c and\u200b official instructions may have found a way to safety while others were trapped in traffic,\u200c engulfed\u200c by blazing flames.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 8, before \u200c4 p.m., Hawaiian Electric\u2064 notified\u200d Maui residents about extended power outages \u200bcaused by\u2062 downed\u2062 power poles. At the\u200c same\u200c time,\u200c the\u200d fire department \u200cclosed the Lahaina\u2063 Bypass road due \u2064to \u2063the spreading blazes, effectively \u200cblocking the \u200conly route out of Lahaina to the \u200bsouth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/just-being-together-hawaii-trip-a-smashing-success-for-villa-park-football-5478892\"><strong>&#8216;Just Being Together&#8217;:\u2062 Hawaii \u2062Trip a Smashing Success for Villa Park \u2064Football<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/22\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/biden-visits-hawaii-as-wildfire-rescue-efforts-continue-850-people-still-missing-5477817\"><strong>Biden Visits Hawaii as Wildfire Rescue Efforts Continue; 850 People Still Missing<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/21\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One resident, Nate Baird,\u2062 encountered traffic\u200b cones and crews \u2064working on the downed \u200belectric poles\u2062 when he tried \u2062to evacuate his\u2063 family. Instead of complying with the instructions to turn back, Baird made\u2063 a daring\u200d move,\u200c swerving \u2062past the cones\u2063 and heading south to safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody realized how little time we really \u2062had,&#8221; Baird said.\u200d &#8220;Like even us being from the heart\u200b of the fire, we did\u2064 not \u2062comprehend. Like we literally \u200dhad minutes and one wrong turn. \u2063We would all be dead right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another family avoided the standstill traffic by taking a dirt road all the way \u2062to Napili, successfully escaping the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Cuevas-Reyes made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-fauci-exposed-china-should-pay-10-trillion-in-damages\/\" title=\"Trump Says Fauci Exposed, China Should Pay  Trillion in Damages\">life-saving decision<\/a> by ignoring instructions to turn \u200cright toward\u2064 Lahaina&#8217;s Civic \u2064Center, which had\u200b been turned into a shelter. \u200bInstead, she drove in the\u2062 wrong lane to get out of\u200d the area\u2063 and save her two children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gridlock would have\u2063 left us\u2064 there\u2062 when the\u2062 firestorm came,&#8221; Cuevas-Reyes said.\u2062 &#8220;I would have\u2062 had to tell my children\u2064 to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or\u200b we \u2064would have just\u2064 died from smoke\u2063 inhalation and roasted in the car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Maui continues to recover from the \u200btragedy, hundreds of people\u200c are \u200dstill missing. According to \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/4166206-hawaii-families-urged-to-give-dna-samples-to-help-identify-wildfire-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>, around 1,000 to 1,100 names remain \u200con the FBI&#8217;s unaccounted list.<\/p>\n<p>In an \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/many-children-likely-among-the-850-people-still-missing-in-maui-wildfires-governor-5478231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with CBS, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green expressed concern that\u2063 many children are likely among the unaccounted population.<\/p>\n<h2>DNA Collection \u2064From Hawaii Families<\/h2>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dVby5_HOtj0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference<\/a>, Julie French, the\u200d senior vice\u2062 president of Ande\u2064 Rapid DNA, urged families to\u2064 come forward\u2062 and donate their DNA samples. These samples will\u200d be compared \u200dwith DNA profiles generated from the \u2062collected human remains to aid in \u2064identification efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DNA is passed through families. So, the DNA can\u2064 be used to link family members together. Parents, children, siblings share the \u2062amount of DNA. And that sharing allows us to make comparisons that can ultimately identify someone and \u200callow the DNA to bring the answer about who \u2062that individual is,&#8221; French explained.<\/p>\n<p>So \u200dfar, only 104 families have provided DNA samples.<\/p>\n<p>French emphasized \u200dthat the collected samples\u2063 are not\u200c being \u200bentered\u2063 into any government-run databases and will only be used \u200bfor comparing DNA in the context of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>In an Aug. 17 press \u200crelease, the FBI&#8217;s Honolulu Division announced \u200cits \u2062assistance to the Maui police\u200d in\u200b collecting DNA\u200b samples from family members.<\/p>\n<h2>Recovering from\u2062 the Disaster<\/h2>\n<p>According\u200c to an Aug. 22 update\u2064 by the County of\u200b Maui, the Lahaina fire, which has burned\u2064 through an estimated \u20642,170 acres, is \u200cnow 90 percent contained.\u200b The Olinda and Kula fires are\u2063 85\u200c percent contained.<\/p>\n<p>A\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/residents-disobeying-official-orders-survived-maui-fires-over-1000-still-missing\/\" title=\"Many residents who ignored orders survived Maui fires, but over 1,000 remain missing.\">large-scale search effort involving 341 emergency personnel<\/a> and 50 canine units \u2064is underway, focusing \u200con\u200c multi-story residential\u200b and commercial properties. \u2064All single-story residential properties in the affected area \u2064have been searched.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2,400 individuals have been sheltered at 10 \u200bhotel locations, and organizations like the Salvation Army \u2062and the American Red Cross have distributed over \u2064146,000 meals to those \u200baffected.<\/p>\n<p>Maui County continues to urge caution and preparedness as the recovery process \u2064continues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many defiant Maui residents managed to escape the wildfires, defying official orders and recommendations, as witnessed by multiple accounts. As of Aug. 22, the County of Maui reported 115 fatalities. 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