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Real Survival Stories

Hawaii Wildfire: Ocean or Inferno? (Part 2 of 2)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We return to Annelise Cochran and the Lahaina wildfire. As the blaze intensifies, she and her neighbours must band together to keep each other going. But as the night deepens, new and unexpected travails present themselves. The locals will find themselves trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea… 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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0:37.0

It's around 9 PM on August the 8th, 2023.

0:45.0

Fire illuminates the night sky above the southwest coast of Maui, where the small town of Lahaina has been ablaze for more than five hours.

0:50.0

With its streets of historic wooden buildings and dry brittle vegetation, this quaint seaside

0:57.5

settlement is like a tenderbox. Flames fueled by hurricane force winds, have rampaged through the town.

1:07.0

Entire residential blocks have been reduced to smoldering piles of ash.

1:11.0

Burnt out shells of cars line the sidewalks.

1:15.0

Their hub caps melted into pools of liquid aluminium.

1:19.0

Here and there, charred timber frameworks rise above the devastation.

1:24.3

Blackened skeletons that once were churches, schools,

1:28.2

municipal buildings.

1:29.8

Along the shoreline, at the base of a five foot high sea war, a group of townsfolk have taken shelter.

1:39.0

They huddled together on the rocks and in the ocean, breathing what little air they can suck through the fabric of their clothes.

1:47.0

Among them is 30-year-old Analice Cochran.

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