Hundreds of Filipinos are among the more than 1,000 missing in the wildfires in Lahaina on Maui Island in Hawaii, the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce said.
"Just not to exaggerate, hundreds of Filipinos are missing," Kit Zulueta Furukaw, director of the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce, told GMA Integrated News on Saturday."On Maui, Filipinos are the second largest population in Lahaina. The majority of the workforce are Filipino, and many of our hotels are there, so there's a lot of hospitality, a lot of small businesses, and a lot of new generation families in Lahaina are Filipinos. Homes are gone, our friends just left there.
In a message sent to GMA Integrated News on Saturday, he said the Filipino population in Lahaina is significant, and many of them lost their homes. According to Hawaii Consul General Emilio Fernandez, authorities are currently focused on search and recovery efforts, which is why the consulate hasn't received official information about the burned houses of Filipino nationals.
There is no electricity, and communication is difficult in Lahaina, which is severely affected by the wildfires.
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