When Javier Barberi woke up on Tuesday, August 8, things weren't exactly normal.

630, check my phone, general manager, Mike, got a group text out to the whole team, A,

powers out.

Okay.

I mean, it happens a decent amount of time, and I'd say probably like eight times a year,

our power will go out.

Javier is a restaurant owner on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and at first he wasn't too worried,

but a few hours later, he heard from his manager again.

Mike's like, bro, the winds are going nuts.

They blew the roof off the wharf, which is right in front of the banyan tree in the

Hina, like the epicenter.

The roof just got blown off of the wharf, uh, cinema center.

I'm like, holy crap, Mike.

The winds were bad enough, but Javier didn't know that those winds were also spreading

wildfires, fires that would quickly become the deadliest in America in over a century.

They devastated parts of the island and killed at least 106 people, and that number is expected

to rise.

About 1,300 people are still missing.

Did you ever think a wildfire was something you would have had to face?

Never.

I always see those California fires, and it's just like, you live your life, and you

think like, that thing will never happen to me, I would never be involved in something

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