{"id":2010615,"date":"2023-08-24T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:58:07","slug":"maui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui fire survivors claim authorities blocked sole escape route from burning Lahaina: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fmaui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report%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=2010615&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--><h2>Survivors\u200d recount harrowing escape from\u2064 Maui fire<\/h2>\n<p>Survivors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/officials-ask-surviving-maui-family-members-for-dna-samples-to-help-identify-remains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maui\u2064 fire<\/a> that swept through \u2062the town\u200c of \u200cLahaina said the only paved road out was barricaded by \u2062authorities as flames overcame the town, according\u200c to a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Maui was \u200bdevastated earlier this month, with Lahaina taking the brunt of one of \u200bthe deadliest wildfires \u200cin modern American history. So far, 115 people have been confirmed dead while between\u200c 800 \u2013 1,000\u2063 remain missing.<\/p>\n<p>Maui Police Chief John Pelletier <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/4166222-maui-residents-who-disobeyed-barricade-survived-fires-ap-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> during a news conference that residents were not prevented from fleeing Lahaina, but accounts from some of the survivors suggest\u200b they were hindered from \u2064making a quick escape because of the decision to\u2064 close the Honoapiilani Highway and a bypass at the south end of town.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses who survived \u200bthe blaze said\u2064 that traffic quickly backed up as residents attempted to flee to the south, but the road was blocked as\u200b a \u2063crew worked on <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>. One family ignored\u2063 the barricade and swerved past the cones \u200bplaced\u200c in the road, making \u200dit safely \u200cto another town nearly \u2063an hour later.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNobody realized how little time we really had,\u201d \u200dsaid Nate Baird, who drove his wife and two young sons\u200d out of Lahaina. \u201cLike even us being from the heart of the fire, we \u2064did not comprehend. Like we literally had minutes \u2062and one wrong turn. We would all be dead\u200b right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A woman and her 3-year-old daughter escaped the burning town \u2062by driving her four-wheel-drive vehicle on a dirt road to a friend\u2019s house in a neighboring town, the AP reported. A mother \u200dwith her two young children said she escaped the gridlock by ignoring\u200d traffic instructions and driving on the wrong side of the road to pass \u2063a long line of cars.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe gridlock would have left us there when the\u2064 firestorm came,\u201d 38-year-old Kim \u200cCuevas-Reyes said. \u201cI would have had to tell my children to jump into the \u2062ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from \u2062smoke inhalation and roasted in\u200d the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2064road leading out of Lahaina to the south did \u200cnot open until\u2062 5:20 p.m., according to Maui County, nearly two hours after residents began fleeing the fire. Witnesses said that by the time the road was\u200d cleared, some had already died in the flames as others escaped the growing fire by jumping into the \u200docean.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Authorities face scrutiny for response to Maui fires<\/h3>\n<p>Maui authorities face intense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/state-agency-led-by-water-equity-advocate-delayed-water-request-during-wildfire-to-consult-with-farmers-maui-company-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrutiny<\/a> for their response to the fires and the lack of details they\u2063 have provided in the aftermath\u2063 of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Maui Emergency Management Agency Chief Herman \u2062Andaya chose not to use the island\u2019s \u200demergency \u200dsirens to alert residents to the deadly fire, saying the emergency sirens are usually used for tsunami warnings, which tell Hawaiians to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-emergency-chief-explains-why-no-sirens-alerted-residents-to-fast-approaching-fire\/\" title=\"Maui's Emergency Chief clarifies absence of sirens during rapid fire threat.\">seek higher ground<\/a>, but that would\u2019ve been toward\u2062 the \u200dfire. Andaya then resigned one day after explaining his decision, citing \u201chealth reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another government agency, the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, was accused \u2063of delaying a request for more water to fight the fire \u200cbecause it first\u200b had to consult with local farmers. The agency was formerly led by a \u201cwater equity advocate,\u201d who was\u200d reassigned to a different division following the fires.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaiian Electric is also\u2064 under \u200cscrutiny for allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hawaii-utility-pursued-green-energy-goals-while-fire-mitigation-projects-were-delayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slow-walking<\/a> modernization and repairs of its electrical grid as it devoted resources to building out the utility\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-agency-led-by-water-equity-advocate-delayed-water-request-during-wildfire-to-consult-with-farmers-maui-company-says\/\" title=\"Maui company claims water request during wildfire delayed by water equity advocate-led state agency for consultation with farmers.\">green energy network<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-trump-campaign-says-clark-county-registrar-joe-gloria-hiding-from-subpoena-service\/\" title=\"Nevada: Trump Campaign Says Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria Hiding From Subpoena Service\">state attorney general<\/a> said it will use a third party\u200b to investigate \u2063how state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report\/\" title=\"Maui fire survivors claim authorities blocked sole escape route from burning Lahaina: Report.\">local government agencies responded<\/a> to the devastating fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of the deadly Maui fire in Lahaina revealed that authorities blocked the only escape route as flames engulfed the town. Lahaina suffered the worst damage in one of America&#8217;s deadliest wildfires this month, leaving Maui devastated. (54 words)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2010616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}