Maui wildfires killed at least 55 people, and hundreds are still missing. Some survivors were forced to jump into the ocean to escape.
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00:08 This is our first time coming back and actually knowing that our house burned down.
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00:34 We had to get out, we left our vehicle.
00:43 And myself, my wife and our five kids, we all got in the ocean.
00:48 We found a floating board that we hung on to.
00:52 And we were out there floating, and it was so surreal.
00:56 And everything was burning around, explosions, cars blowing up.
01:01 I remember us flying, we couldn't breathe.
01:04 The ocean almost sent my kids away a few times.
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01:17 >> This is gonna go on for a while.
01:21 This is gonna take years, years to recover.
01:25 And it just breaks my heart that all the history from back in the whaling days,
01:32 the 1800s, dust, ash and dust.
01:36 [MUSIC]
01:42 >> Behind the town is hallowed sacred ground right now,
01:45 because our EV are in that ground.
01:48 We have to get them out.
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