Maui police held a news conference to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town in August
Maui police held a news conference on Monday to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town in August, including video of officers rescuing 15 people from a coffee shop and taking a severely burned man to a hospital. Chief John Pelletier said his department faced a deadline to release 20 hours of body camera footage in response to an open records request and wanted to provide some context for what people would see before the video came out.
“I'll just take you straight to the hospital. That sound good?” the officer can be heard asking the man, who responds: “Yeah.” One video shows an officer tying a tow strap to a metal gate blocking a dirt road escape route while residents use a saw to cut the gate open so a line of cars can get past. Multiple shots show officers going door-to-door telling residents to evacuate. The fast-moving wildfire on Aug. 8 killed at least 99 people and burned more than 2,000 structures.
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