Amid the raging Hawaii wildfires, Annelise Cochran and her neighbor survived the inferno in Lahaina by spending hours next to a rock wall at the edge of town.
Cochran, a Maryland native who works as a training manager for an ocean conservation nonprofit,at around 4 p.m., the smoke was growing thicker and she began to hear fire alarms in nearby buildings going off.There was no text message telling her to evacuate, no emergency siren, she said.
Then, to her shock, she saw flames in a parking lot about a block away. She ran to her apartment to grab a few essentials and jumped into her car.She turned toward the water, hoping to drive out of town to safety, but found the road blocked by abandoned cars. She picked up a tourist who later decided to leave her car because he wanted to head in a different direction than Cochran did; she never saw him again.When the building next to her car began to burn, she said, she got out and headed for the water. She found two of her neighbors, a middle-aged woman named Edna and an 86-year-old man named Freeman, who had difficulty walking. They all went over the barrier wall, down to the hulking black rocks below to escape the flames.
At one point, Cochran said, she called out to Freeman, who was a little further down the rocky beach, and asked how he was. He just smiled and made a shaka gesture with his hand — middle fingers down, thumb and little finger out — to indicate he was all right, even though Cochran knew he was suffering. Later, she said,“I just ache for his family,” Cochran said.
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