More than 50 people are dead from devastating wildfires in Maui, and many more are displaced and trying to pick up the pieces. But one family in Utah is trying to help.
“It’s just so hard to think about this community going through this,” said Kimberly Kekahuna, who was born and raised in Maui, where a massive blaze is reducing the island to ash and rubble. “It was very hard for my husband and I who went to school at Lahaina Luna, and to see all this happen to our friends and family there."
“The community is really strong, and that community is a big ohana — family — and they might not be ohana by blood, but they are ohana by heart," she said.“We’re so far away and it’s hard for us to try to lend a helping hand. This is the only way that we can," she said. "Anything we can get — clothing, kids' clothing, essential stuff, toothbrush, toothpaste, combs, anything that we think. Blankets, towels," Kekahuna said.
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