Adam Probolsky was quick to credit the local residents who helped make his family’s escape possible.
Adam Probolsky and his wife and kids jumped into a rental car packed with luggage cinched by bungee cords as towering flames grew closer to their picturesque Maui resort. It was Wednesday morning, Aug. 9. They had one goal — to get off the island.
Probolsky and his wife Desiree, his mother-in-law Lupe, and daughters Isabela, 9, and Olivia, 10. had arrived at the resort just north of Lahaina on Sunday. “I talked to multiple employees who told me the saddest stories,” Probolsky said. “One man’s home of three generations had burned to the ground, and he was at the hotel doing security. I didn’t know what to say. This guy was working, and he was in a crisis.
By late Wednesday morning, power at the hotel was running out, and the fire glowed eerily outside the hotel windows. Probolsky’s brother had booked the family a flight to Oahu and a hotel room.“I charged down the stairs, and I know it sounds dramatic, but I grabbed Lupe’s arm and said, ‘We leave now,’” Probolsky said. “We booked it back to the room … I said that we had 20 minutes.”
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