‘Complete madness’: One Lahaina firefighter’s battle against the Maui wildfires

Aina Kohler, a firefighter of 13 years, shares a detailed account of how she and other firefighters worked to combat the deadly wildfires that blazed through Lahaina on Aug. 8.
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#Maui #Wildfires #Firefighter

[@popofilipo7114]

Firefighters are the heros. You guys did your best. Always appreciate the firefighters always get involved putting their own lives in risk for others.

[@laradale2540]

Agree.

[@greatestever8976]

They're blaming "climate change" for the Lahaina fire and so many other disasters (earthquakes, tornados, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc.) when in reality they plan & create these events using frequencies, lasers, cloud seeding, & other silent weapons. They use the pretext of “Climate Change” to advance their goals: create the problem with weather manipulation, then the people demand help, then they advance their agenda to take and control all lands and eliminate 95% of the population as they emphatically stated when they erected the Georgia Guidestones in 1980. The USAF released a document in 1996 titled “Owning the Weather by 2025” and they have advanced their declaration where they control and modify weather at will around the world we live on. World War DEW’D Directed Energy Weapons Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars James W. Lee

[@peterbardy1296]

They had no water 😕

[@glenn-b5k]

well ours didnt show up,,,aloha from maui

[@glenn-b5k]

@@peterbardy1296 thats when you help evacuate the public.

[@CourtneyHill-Digitalcreator]

My heart goes out to Maui and all the people. This fire was not normal and I'm shocked that soil samples in an investigation have not happened but that tells me how much is wrong. God bless them to rebuild and for the strength and for all of us on the mainland to keep supporting Maui

[@primalcritters]

The reason soil samples are not being done and now the water is labeled as contaminated is so that they can condemn the land so that the government can claim it and big developers can swoop in and develop luxury accommodations. The problem in the way for the indigenous people. That is why they had to wipe out whole generations so nobody could claim the land. For the few that did survive, that is their way around it so they cannot have their properties back. Disgusting

[@johnrexx6903]

as a paramedic my heart goes out to her because I know the nightmares

[@lindadavidson1389]

Firefighters were victims as well. Sometimes there isn't anything you can do. Still praying for victims of Lahaina.

[@stevehageman7005]

Doesn't look like a natural wildfire to me, and many others. Blessings on all the victims of this tragedy.

[@lbarmstrong1]

LISTEN to her: "It was just bizarre." This woman is a hero, yet she doesn't even realize that everything about this fire was "bizarre." She was literally responding to an ATTACK by an as yet unseen, unknown enemy with some type of new weapon that melts aluminum long enough and hot enough to send it rolling down the street just feet from where chickens are standing, dead, with feathers still on their body and their eyes are open (yes, that was in an EMT's video). When the trees are burning not from the outside, but from the inside, when fence posts are unburned, but the places where the metal nails go in are charred, when items on the indigo spectrum are left completely untouched.... it's not natural. How about a blue tarp rolled up and untouched on the top of a sailboat in the harbor that's burned to a crisp. Yet there was the tarp. Or a skiff with an outboard motor, beached at Baby Beach... the skiff, painted blue, is untouched but the outboard motor is completely melted? This hero firefighter tells her larger picture story, but the evidence was there after, and it was accidentally put out and thousands of people have taken screenshots and videos and have the evidence. So until the "legacy media" do some real coverage, some real digging into this fire, others will keep on doing their job for them.

[@sabinereynaudsf]

Nonsense. Lahaina had many more blue house and they burned down. Blue canopies that burned down etc. This fire is like any other fire, they burn irregularly. If it had been some weapon you would see a clear pattern, which there is none.

[@johns4651]

take your pills.

[@tommybokelman5565]

@@sabinereynaudsf do you honestly think they would not cover their tracks if there was a weapon. I’m not saying there was or wasn’t but come on if there was they would definitely cover their tracks somehow

[@tommybokelman5565]

@@johns4651shut your mouth

[@sabinereynaudsf]

@@tommybokelman5565 "They", whoever they are, did not only unleash some kind of weapon, but "they" also managed a fast moving fire in a way that covered "their" tracks? Nice thought experiment, but I honestly don't think that is what happened.

[@annemoore6161]

As a fire fighter, can you explain why your neighbors houses did not burn? I can even see green grass in the property next to yours and trees still standing? The fire was so hot to turn your house into ash, wind so strong you couldn’t even direct the water in the hose, yet your neighbors’ houses are untouched? Thank you for doing all that you tried to do, but there was nothing you could do to stop this!

[@greatestever8976]

Uh oh! We got a thinker here who asks question! 👍

[@Kiki-Kauai]

Some people near her house had been using their garden hoses most of the afternoon to water their house down and their yards. Some were still trying save their own homes up to 3:30 or 4. So many people have their own story for that day. Many will be different, because everyone’s experience was different, to some degree.

[@lbarmstrong1]

No, it has nothing to do with some people holding water on their GRASS to make it stay safe Kiki. Use your thinking cap here....this was not a natural "wildfire.' @@Kiki-Kauai

[@tammywestern5816]

Why is this massacre still being labeled "wildfire "?????

[@greatestever8976]

They're blaming "climate change" for the Lahaina fire and so many other disasters (earthquakes, tornados, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc.) when in reality they plan & create these events using frequencies, lasers, cloud seeding, & other silent weapons. They use the pretext of “Climate Change” to advance their goals: create the problem with weather manipulation, then the people demand help, then they advance their agenda to take and control all lands and eliminate 95% of the population as they emphatically stated when they erected the Georgia Guidestones in 1980. The USAF released a document in 1996 titled “Owning the Weather by 2025” and they have advanced their declaration where they control and modify weather at will around the world we live on. World War DEW’D Directed Energy Weapons Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars James W. Lee

[@kleepo7733]

The cover-up continues. It's nice to see OTHER firefighters actually speaking up for the things that they see wrong about this fire. Nobody seems to be concerned about how the fire started when the electric company said the power was off. Just curious where did you get all this water at? When others people say there is no water???? Watching the media spin it how they want it to be.

[@justinewhite-hadley3138]

Oh sweet soul...YOU'RE A HERO!!! There was Nothing more you could do. Its not your shoulders. You did it all Right!!!❤❤❤

[@Yukteswar-w1u]

This fire was not natural organic. So sorry you could'nt save your city because of it. Impossible with this wind and fire that melted aluminium (maybe this is dutch, don't know the right word?) Alumin of cars. It was way to Hot. Not possible with natural fires. Thank you for sharing from your point of vieuw, as a firefighter, and much love to you and your familie from Holland❤

[@rebeccaperson8581]

Many more people were killed than 97.

[@micheleharris6851]

Way more dead than being reported! Why?! Tell the truth. We know those "in charge" failed those that lost their lives. Grow a pair and take responsibility local and federal governments! Sending love and healing to Maui survivors 💕

[@crazycasy]

She should have nothing to regret she did the best she could, she probably saved lots of life using her time after water was off to tell people to evacuate

[@thaismatsumoto]

There are a couple of families on the news who said that firefighters directed them to safety with their lights because people couldn’t see because of the smoke. So yeah,I agree with you.

[@kathys.warner6450]

Sometimes people just can't put what happened into words these people that have explained it really well we're good at talking and explaining details that the average person just doesn't know how to do to put sentences together to make it meaningful and these firefighters and the people really made it meaningful and that's what's so important to have people that care and do the absolute best they can and then there's nothing else you can do when you've done all you can do

[@greatestever8976]

They're blaming "climate change" for the Lahaina fire and so many other disasters (earthquakes, tornados, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc.) when in reality they plan & create these events using frequencies, lasers, cloud seeding, & other silent weapons. They use the pretext of “Climate Change” to advance their goals: create the problem with weather manipulation, then the people demand help, then they advance their agenda to take and control all lands and eliminate 95% of the population as they emphatically stated when they erected the Georgia Guidestones in 1980. The USAF released a document in 1996 titled “Owning the Weather by 2025” and they have advanced their declaration where they control and modify weather at will around the world we live on. World War DEW’D Directed Energy Weapons Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars James W. Lee

[@fokuspoint]

Know that you did your best for you community. You tried which is alot more than the stupid government did! no warning or anything in 2023 is an absolute Kerfuffle and shows how misplaced our governments priorities are. I personally thank you Aina and all the heroes who tried that day! we love you guys know that we on the mainland are outraged at the lack of support for you guys.

[@Phoenix-jw1mn]

Sister, you did your best. We know in firefighting that we cannot save them all but at least we'll do our damndest to try. The conditions for this fire were against you. You likely slowed it down enough for more people to get out, be proud of that fact.

[@stevedolesch9241]

Aina, I'm with you. Something's very wrong. Staying for 5 hours with no fire but when you leave, poof. Not making sense. Something or someone started and reotaed the bush fire. I'm with you and all résidents. Take care. HUGS

[@kartikatomlinson3304]

God Bless You for your Service!! You did the best ya'll could!! Welcome you and support you!!!❤

[@omegasurf]

How did she see people abandon their cars at the same time she's driving around with the firefighters? Why couldn't the people take the same route she was taking?

[@flynnstone3580]

5:53 in the lower right there's a new house being framed with no damage and every other house around it burnt.🤔

[@changingoftheguard7256]

Yes how much more evidence do you need? This was a terrorist attack

[@ezlow1065]

Houses not burnt or scorched yet all around ash! Please explain!

[@00Dann99]

Bizarre

[@crazycasy]

Maybe they are rebuilding that quick, either way very strange, good eye

[@zekeharley]

@@ezlow1065 WIND!, wind driven fire!

[@vickypatout5361]

As a nurse, I really feel for the firefighters, how horrible to have to live with second guessing yourself when you weren't able to do your job to save people & structures. I hope they are all getting free mental health care for the trauma 😢God bless you all ❤

[@alohatoerings2484]

Aman your a blessing love 💕 u all our firefighters 🚒 🙏💪

[@thesoultransferprotocol721]

A quote from Lester Holt: "Beware of MISINFORMATION on the internet."

[@changingoftheguard7256]

Yeah especially MSNBC

[@ksha8586]

Thats rich coming from MSDNC.

[@thesoultransferprotocol721]

@@ksha8586 Yes. TRUE.

[@lbarmstrong1]

Beware of the lies of the "legacy media." Nothing but propaganda.

[@bethwhite2857]

Thank you for your service 💕

[@cheryl9389]

Fire departments in California use hoses that can pump seawater to a fire...

[@federalreservebrown2507]

california is not run by the japanese, hawaii is

[@shanaadams6517]

Why cant the Ukrainian payoff stay here in the UNITED STATES to help MAUI!!! EVERYTHING was lost do to Government & Failed Infrastructure!!! Where are the FULL LIST of Names, pictures of people still missing like news does after every major disaster! What about the children???????? We can NOT, WE WILL NOT LET THIS STORY GO QUIET

[@cyn1979]

What about “the children”? How many are we talking about? Are they on the unaccounted for list of 35ish people? If not, their parents better go and make a police report or it’s just gonna be bots like you that keep the “missing children” narrative alive.

[@totallydomestic433]

Question for this firefighter: Do you think some person started that fire back up?

[@Phoenix-jw1mn]

Likely the wind.

[@unknownsender6852]

@@Phoenix-jw1mn Funny way to spell microwave weapon

[@crazycasy]

Maybe arsonists reignited the fire, 5 hours sitting on it and nothing, but then 20 minutes after leaving it goes ham, then the water goes off...

[@dorthymcbride3384]

Mahalo first responders and Captain for your dedicated service! Sorry, the media reported untrue details. No one knew that most of your team lost their houses! Still, you were all on duty day in and day out!!! God bless all of you and your ohana🙏❤️😭👍

[@kimray9988]

That is so sad.........god bless them

[@scottkelly3824]

Thanks for your service. I'm sure you all tried your best.

[@francinesanchez5402]

Sometimes we find ourselves in situations we can’t win. What a devastating situation. In So Cal, we have fires. I know multiple people who’ve lost houses. We’ve had school cancelled, the sky being black. But… nothing even close to this scale as the firefighters pretty much always get everyone out. If we have causality’s, it’s usually people who stay with their homes (although there are always always exceptions). That being said, we don’t get winds like that often (if ever) (ours can be bad, but not storm winds), we can easily get many fire departments together from around the state and neighboring states, we have choices of roads to get us away and have firefighters doing controlled burns and clearing brush throughout the year. I have a friend who did seasonal wildlife firefighting work and he said a surprising amount was clearing brush. We also have fires skipping houses… that’s what happens (but I have no knowledge at those wind speeds), but you always see or hear about that. One neighbors house burns down and another’s hasn’t (that’s common). All that to say, that is my main familiarity. Im no expert at all. I think critical thinking is so important. Sometimes people who believe in conspiracy theories consistently hurt themselves because they are so dubious of main media, they have become prey for voices that have less accountability and more desire to manipulate. As flawed as main media is, it often has more safe guards than those shouting for conspiracy. Doubt of media and separation from outside world is a big step in many cults. I fear many who are actually trying to think for themselves ends how being convinced by very persuasive voices that lack merit. Some conspiracies are correct. But you’ve got to be most dubious of the minority salacious voices. Listen to both sides, do outside research (nothing to verify can come from the outside voice - at all) and if someone is trying to separate (and often there is a cadence, etc) have your red flags go up and take with a grain of salt. My ex husband is someone who will lie to get what he wants. He can create a believable case for almost anything. He can create conspiracy theories that feel believable for anything. I would believe him if I didn’t see the truth play out in front of me. When validating claims, also look at the validity of the info - it’s got to be independent, don’t look for recent or anything newly created. It’s just such a bummer that those who want to be tricked least end up being targeted for false information.

[@curiousgirl.4134]

My only question is, how did the firefighters get out and to safety if the roads were blocked? If the police let them through barricades, why would they not evacuate people someway, somehow? It seems like common sense. Yes, it is sad that the whole town burned down because of its history but the buildings were old and obviously highly flammable and all I can believe, is that it was time for a fresh start for the people. It is the lives that were lost due to leadership failures in the emergency evacuation process, that are the reason people believe the "conspiracies" and the happenstance (to give the benefit of the doubt) of Governor Green's law changes right before the fires, the already executed plan to change the landscape and town of Lahaina already (which happens to be right where the fires were and the way the emergency was handled. I guess, only time will root it out and that can only show its face when it comes time to rebuild. If a 15-minute city is implemented rather than allowing the Hawaiian's input and assistance in rebuilding their own town (without highrises I hope), then I am sorry, I will remain skeptical about this whole thing. All I know is the people who lost their homes and their people, deserve a financial reward that will make it possible for them to rebuild the way they see it...if this is NOT done, it isn't a conspiracy.

[@BCAkua8264]

Curious, how do you know the information is "false"? Do you know the truth? What makes you think that the "conspiracy theories" aren't the actual truth? Thank you!

[@greatestever8976]

They're blaming "climate change" for the Lahaina fire and so many other disasters (earthquakes, tornados, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc.) when in reality they plan & create these events using frequencies, lasers, cloud seeding, & other silent weapons. They use the pretext of “Climate Change” to advance their goals: create the problem with weather manipulation, then the people demand help, then they advance their agenda to take and control all lands and eliminate 95% of the population as they emphatically stated when they erected the Georgia Guidestones in 1980. The USAF released a document in 1996 titled “Owning the Weather by 2025” and they have advanced their declaration where they control and modify weather at will around the world we live on. World War DEW’D Directed Energy Weapons Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars James W. Lee

[@Carlajustme-pb1cc]

From what I have heard the water was shut off on them and no it was 85 % contained. She's ratting out herself.

[@lbarmstrong1]

"It was time for a fresh start for the people..." ARE YOU KIDDING? They're DEAD and you are NOT a "curious girl" you really, really need to grow up and take a stand. This was murder, intentional destruction. You "hope," you "feel," "it's sad..." "Leadership failures..." You're in denial and your comment is an amazing insight into how people are led right down the path to their deaths in historic ways... open your eyes@@curiousgirl.4134

[@Tomorrowandtomorrowandtomorrow]

The power was OFF - down power lines weren't a threat. There was NO WATER - who shut it off? WHY were the CELL TOWERS inoperative that morning, yet texts could come in? WHY was the alarm system not working? WHY were so many officials not in the area or even on the island that day? WHY were people BLOCKED from leaving the town as it burned, then prevented from returning with SUPPLIES to HELP those who had been TRAPPED?

[@CotyElliott]

It's hard to put a fire out that incinerates people alive from a giant laser in outer space.

[@kathys.warner6450]

She did a good job explaining how they did all they could do and then of course they ran out of water we know all about that and there was a pond and they wouldn't allow the fire department to take the water

[@Standing.W.Israel]

The power company had cut the power 6 hours before the fire broke out.....

[@clk1717]

Why?? Because maybe they knew what was coming??

[@Angelsbliss818]

Wind storm from hurricane elsewhere allegedly

[@kaleihaokamekona7894]

At 0.30 seconds, why is just the house on fire but not any of the plants, trees or vegetation burning?

[@jenniekotoff6772]

What about the missing?! How many are still missing?!

[@vincecallagher7636]

Good to hear real time info from a firefighter that knows what happened. Tired of all the fantasy and speculations.

[@VictoriaPalapala]

Ditto .. a hollywood motion pucture epic should be coming out soon cashing in on death destruction .. al🎃ha

[@coleengoodell7523]

All the woulda, shoulda, coulda's won't change a single thing or add a single second to your life or anyone else's. Now is a time for we will, we should and we can in the future.

[@federalreservebrown2507]

if 9/11 didn't matter, this sure doesn't

[@paintbrushful]

Just curious------Not a word from the Firefighter Captain but NBC does this whole documentary on an enlisted employee. ?????? Plus, there is an "emergency injunction" against driving by, taking pictures or asking questions.....HMMMMMM

[@DaveLeedL118]

Police should be telling people to evacuate, but instead blocking the road causing people trapped.

[@pegnewsarepta3589]

❤The government did this.

[@adamrice2847]

From reading several of the comments it sounds like a coordinated narrative minimizing the big picture " Intentional Negligence" I'm not referring anything negative against the person in this video.

[@marvinacklin792]

Those scenes on the waterfront are horrifying.

[@cyndicharlton8659]

So so sorry this is happening to you folks

[@shabbykat273]

You and your fellow firefighters did your obs. There's some "officials" who are at the top of the food chain there who definitely were derelict in their duties, but possibly criminally complicit.

[@tonipagani8959]

WoW u are so brave. 😢😢😢😢😢

[@janeleray132]

Who owns NBC news…? Just asking…

[@spersona]

How is there absolutely no video of any firefighters recorded fighting the fire ? Please show proof of attempt to stop the fire .

[@DiscovertourshawaiiLLC]

She says its strange the same spot flared up

[@charonstyxferryman]

*This wildfire was a firestorm* : A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bush fires and wildfires. Although the term has been used to describe certain large fires, the phenomenon's determining characteristic is a fire with its own storm-force winds from every point of the compass towards the storm's center, where the air is heated and then ascends. The Black Saturday bushfires, the 2021 British Columbia wildfires, and the Great Peshtigo Fire are possible examples of forest fires with some portion of combustion due to a firestorm, as is the Great Hinckley Fire. Firestorms have also occurred in cities, usually due to targeted explosives, such as in the aerial firebombings of London, Hamburg, Dresden, and Tokyo, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

[@MariusGiurgi]

These fires WERE NOT NATURAL!

[@danchanda]

Trees still standing between houses and other structures that were absolutely incinerated. Not normal.

[@faith4grace589]

So the brush fire was easily extinguished. But then flying burning embers from wood and grass burning managed to incinerate cars and melt aluminum sitting on asphalt. Seems strange at best. And maybe a Patsy firefighter. But I totally trust the science, system, and media that knows better. Build back better at its best.

[@Josephine-sm2db]

More people may have died but the officials kept cutting the numbers down

[@lillybinky9144]

Did anyone notice the blue flower pot @ 5:30? Or something blue on the ground @ 5:43? Or the red car @ 5:54? Why are these things unburned among everything else that is?

[@glenncurley680]

People run away from fires! Firefighters run at fires. I know it was overwhelming and they did their best!

[@LahainaStrong444]

You did the best you could. It would not have made any difference which way you went, because the crazy wind was driving the fire

[@dominysynclair]

Just a reminder: Not a wildfire.

[@blauwzakjecrack]

5:57 but offcourse steel cars melt , aluminum window frames and windows completely vaporize, upperfloors and roofs vanish into thin air like they never existed. All sorts of wall paints and what not are conveniently retouched to eggwhite by the intense heat, BUT A WOODEN HOUSE FRAME IS PERFECTLY UNTOUCHED? HOW?

[@binaryflat]

Nothing "wild" about these fires.

[@stevenbeltran4886]

NOT A NORMAL FIRE ( D.E.W.) IN MY MIND.

[@changingoftheguard7256]

@@stevenbeltran4886 don't be surprised when you find out that this lady was mislead while others kept inducing the fires. Why do you think the police who were blocking people from escaping telling people they can't film or take photos?

[@cyn1979]

There’s a lot of “wild misinformation “ though…

[@happycat3399]

Sweetie, even the best firefighters cannot do their job without water or some sort of retardant. I survived the Camp Fire, lost my home, business, fur babies, friends. These things are so hot everything combusting/ exploding embers the size of dinner plates flying around- pine trees burning from the inside out and exploding. They burn so fast 3 football fields per minute. You did your best. I’m sorry for your loss. The friends we lost will never be forgotten. You will rebuild, it will be different, we will go on.

[@ing5088]

Cars have melted and trees still stand? The footage just looks so bizarre my brain can’t make sense of it.

[@hakan8997]

At 5:43 picture of her house. Whats that blue thing to the left of the burnt out pickup with no engine?

[@rico8089]

Ceramic pot

[@vincentgiovannoni2258]

Sorry to say, it sounds like the original brush fire from earlier wasn't quite out before they left to go back to the station to grab some lunch. In winds like that it doesn't take much.

[@martinasommer1306]

What about planes with water?.

[@Celtic_Amy]

Sounds like the fire was already out of control by the time they were called back to the scene of the first brush fire. I think if they had been alerted sooner, maybe there was more she could have done. I think there were multiple fires started by power lines which is why the fire was everywhere

[@ManifestationsOfTheLight]

It followe the wiring inside 😬🔥

[@Finnegan1018]

Do these firefighters suspect arson at the initial brush fire... considering it was out and they were there 5+ hours and 20 minutes after they left it started up again...? Pretty sketchy

[@zekeharley]

downed power lines started it, there is video of it.

[@Finnegan1018]

@@zekeharley pretty sure the video you're taking about was in a different area all together There were trees and other undergrowth. This one was a grass fire in the open.

[@johncox2912]

@@zekeharley That video does not match the area. The video shows woods and dense growth. This area was high ground, open, and mostly just grass.

[@bethwhite2857]

That video was olinda fire about 50 miles away up county. There were 5 or 6 fires on the island that day ???

[@jo-anni.benson2806]

Press into something man-made reignited the fire? Pic was shown pole dropped started a fire. Heco said earlier powerlines were turned off.

[@tOxIc_TrEaSuRe]

6:00 daaaa------look what didn't burn....... here is a house half framed with plywood floors surrounded by burnt to the ground structures and cars.

[@icebiker3]

No tinder to ignite the wood. Older buildings have a lot of tinder.

[@stretchstretch9112]

Where are the kids? Who sent them home? Who stopped the people from leaving?

[@christineredhagstrom2757]

You were back at the station! You didn’t see what others saw!!

[@r.p.c.9077]

Any questions can be answered by the following: 1) Who was voted into office? 2) What was their ideology? 3) Why would the water be held back because "we have to revere water"? There are far too many questions that involve the ideology that the people who were voted into office, were put into positions that exacerbated the situation, and how the failure of such from foolish policies that were put into place long before the fire broke out.

[@sabinereynaudsf]

Water wasn't held back. You heard her the pressure went down. The other story you are talking about has nothing to do with the Lahaina water. Their hydrants are not connected to the "revered water". That has nothing to do with ideology. You are not from Maui, that much is clear. You have no idea what you are talking about.

[@davidhays3481]

My friend, can you please research the Talmud and ponder the role you think it is playing in the present day…..I believe this to be a critical document both as a religious scripture for the enemies of humanity and a document the public is largely unaware of, but should be….people like jimmy dore, russel brand, Alex jones etc who are supposedly all about the truth often neglect mentioning the Talmud, fear being the only reason I can imagine…so, if they really desire the trust of the people and truly treasure freedom as they profess, I think it is way past time they expose and detail the Talmud and connect the dots to who the people may be, such as gov Josh Green, who value this disgusting hateful scripture…time to man up brother!!!!!

[@karenblaise9208]

These were not wildfires. It was arson.

[@buonafortuna8698]

HER OWN HOUSE got burned as well..while she was rescuing other houses..omg.

[@EricaGarfinkel]

Poor lady us gonna be torturing herself for the rest of her life in what she could have done differently so sad

[@tOxIc_TrEaSuRe]

first scene was a house burning from the inside out

[@clk1717]

The majority were burning from the inside out......that's one "signature!"

[@pmarcum7146]

Houses within proximity of a wildfire typically do catch on fire from within the house. Materials on the outside of a house are not generally very flammable. Embers driven by strong winds enter houses through the air vents in the attic or under the eaves, or through windows that get broken by objects outside being flung around by the strong wind. Once inside and in that area (like an attic) that is somewhat sheltered from the wind, the ember can turn into a fire very quickly. One of the things that those of us who live in fire-prone areas have learned is that building homes that do not allow embers to easily enter the attic is one effective measure to take in making one's home fire-proof.

[@pmarcum7146]

@@clk1717 Absolutely! Very strong winds will drive the embers right into a house's attic!

[@suchitraroy1758]

I was there and did not get any warning about the fire. Had to leave with just the clothes on our backs.

[@jonathantepairi2664]

We are standing with the fire fighters of lahaina .The fault was not your burden to bare it is the ugly mismanagement of the officials who stood by and did sweet f.a.while not protecting anyone and still no response from fema for 6 days,or maui government not even acknowledging that the fire was that bad ,,,,all fire fighters are my hero's, true first responders who put life and limb at risk every time there is a fire ,god bless this lady for recounting her experience at lahaina ,,,,,,hold those in official capacity accountable for what they didn't do ,,,,not what they said they would do after it was already laid to waste

[@DebMalone-e7e]

No sound

[@Lydia-Roe]

And this is how they traumatize emergency workers and first responders. There is nothing you can do when these types of odds are stacked against you. This was not normal.

[@thedragonflygate4587]

The firefighters tried to do their jobs, but if the authorities had failed to warn people had turned off the water supplies and police were blocking the roads instead of helping people to evacuate, what were they to do? They were let down as well.

[@MelywoodMedia]

Why didn't anything blue burn?

[@keithhutchins8803]

Stop with your crazy nonsense!

[@keithhutchins8803]

get an evaluation!

[@MelywoodMedia]

@@keithhutchins8803 are you too isolated in your cult bubble to not have seen the THOUSANDS of reports, photographs and video by real people who live there? If not, you are willfully ignorant! Abd that's the worst kind of ignorance!

[@MelywoodMedia]

@agent00soul48 It's a choice to be ignorant. I choose not to be and question everything. Especially the propaganda corporate news.

[@cirosotomayor3900]

agent 00 is an AI MISINFO CHAT BOT btw so just disreguard all the "arguement from intimidation" protoclos the algos are set to trigger when evwr the true marstives go online they auto maticly generate counter naratives ( deep fakes )

[@CanTho2022]

BIG QUESTION IS WHY THE WATER WAS CUT OFF….preventing Fire fighters to do their jobs!!??

[@HenrySousa-n2c]

EXCELLENT INTERVIEW WITH Aina Kohler ...GIVE A FIREFIGHTER A MICROPHONE, AS IN 911 21 YEARS AGO, YOU FIND THE REAL TRUTH...Regardless of the official narrative .....

[@zariballard]

Very strange but one woman whose house was burning went looking for firefighters and found them 1/2 mile up the road drinking coffee. They promised they be right behind her but they never showed up. She went AGAIN and THIS time they came behind her and helped. I'm sorry, plenty of you are dropped the ball. You WEREN'T doing all u could do either because u were told to stand down and u complied or because you KNEW what these fires were and that putting them out was impossible. I don't think I believe u, girl.

[@ian3828]

She's paid to lie to media

[@davidkaminski3586]

I thought the water was turned off no fire trucks around why the police block the roads going out?

[@lenr7068]

Children are still missing. Where are they? Bless the firefighters that did their best to save people and homes.

[@changingoftheguard7256]

Being sold. What do you think people witnessed cops and other strange people abducting children days before the fire started

[@erikhaack4123]

​@@changingoftheguard7256days before the fire??? Where in the heck did you hear this or saw this??????

[@cyn1979]

Bot

[@candykane4271]

@@changingoftheguard7256 Having a dream problem check your electrolytes!

[@zekeharley]

where did you hear this? most children have been accounted for. Yes they have not reported back to school,but they are not missing!

[@rrusso9299]

Sounds like a propaganda piece !!! Leaving out a lot of facts!!!

[@unknownsender6852]

Funny not a single fire hose, fire truck or firefighter in this entire 7 minute reel to corroborate her narration 🤨

[@Colleensue]

NBC shame on you for not telling the whole truth about what is really going on in Maui. IN JESUS NAME AMEN

[@icebiker3]

Wow! An ultra-right stripper. Who would have thunk?

[@Christstuffer]

We are a nation led by psychopaths.

[@linda-nh7ki]

Human sacrifice

[@donforester-dd3pj]

I just wonder if people know what the name Oprah or Ophrah translate from Hebrew to the the English language means? "Place of Dust" her name is everywhere. Isn't that weird! Or is it?

[@icebiker3]

Antisemitism is a nasty business.😯

[@rico8089]

I just wonder if people know that the Hebrew word Khatool translates to Cat. Is that kreepy or what 🤡

[@donforester-dd3pj]

Yes it's Nefarious! Just like all these sites under this World that these Minions are aloud to services above to bring Mankind or "Kin" that was originally designed for Harmony in this stolen Matrix for a universal Season Time is not a equation that this universe recognize, that's why they are able to control "Their Time Lines" I will always say That is in my soul, wording is a Double talk that is positive or negative frequency vibration like above n below that holds the water. Believe when i tell you this Kazarian Mafia, Cabal, Illuminati, Deep stare Bankig Cartal, DOVOS what ever mind set your in, this is Beelze seaso! notYahweh,that dropped the word to expand the vibration of creation that resonate outwards. That they want this key to.Just think about a sence! This frequency that effects one's life it's Negative! so it's not common anymore to feel it this is part of their equation our made up time is really a short season like they have, so if it smells like Skunk and looks like a Skunk it's a skunk! Not like these Rooster Fishes"Think about this double meaning! that they really are. This is not a from of wokeisaim but what Country Folk say to show their dislike for someone just like Fair to Middle is their word that confuses outsider not Awake to their ways. This Government realizes its a way to say our Agenda without saying it. Stop becoming the Sheep of these Shepherd kings.

[@DiscovertourshawaiiLLC]

Who turns off emergency water fire hydrants EVER!!! Green must have oked it. Besides all the other anomalies

[@davidkaminski3586]

Where are the children and buses that are missing?

[@HwnDragon1]

Mahalo to MFD it broke out in many places like it was deliberate outbreaks notice blue things didn’t burn 🔥

[@eyepatch3769]

This disaster was definitely preventable. Need to up grade infrastructure to fight fires.

[@zeenaabdura5686]

Why didn't the trees burn?