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Real Survival Stories

Hawaii Wildfire: Island in Flames (Part 1 of 2)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Annelise Cochran is a marine conservationist who lives a tranquil life in Hawaii. But in 2023, the island paradise she calls home transforms into a hellish inferno. As a colossal wildfire tears through her historic seaside town, the terrified locals take refuge along a small strip of coastline. There, Annelise will be forced into a terrifying decision… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions Annelise is a listener to the show who got in touch with her incredible story. If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 on the Hawaiian Island of Maui, just before 5 p.m. a column of black smoke rises above the coastal town of Lahaina. 80 mile an hour winds screech down desolate streets, fueling the spread of a massive uncontrollable

0:45.6

wildfire. Flames leap from building to building, engulfing timber frame houses,

0:51.1

devouring historic landmarks, and reducing palm-lined

0:54.9

boulevards to scorched earth. The fire has formed a horseshoe-shaped ring

1:01.6

around the town.

1:03.0

From the north, south, and east, the Blaze works its way seaward,

1:08.0

steadily advancing towards a narrow strip of coastline,

1:11.0

where local residents and tourists have rushed to escape, and where they now find

1:16.8

themselves surrounded.

1:20.0

Among them, sitting behind the wheel of her idling car, is 30-year-old Analice Cochran.

1:27.5

With the roads blocked, terrified people have started hurling themselves into the rough ocean,

1:33.4

trading one extreme for another.

1:38.2

You saw people kind of choosing all of those different things.

1:40.5

There was people on the land still,

1:41.8

there was people that were sitting on the rocks, there was people who were kind of kneeling in the water, and then there was also people who had begun to grab debris, there was tons of debris because the buildings were just falling apart from the wind.

1:53.6

And so people were grabbing onto stuff and floating out with that.

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