She survived a fire in Hawaii: “I screamed and prayed for my life. “I felt the heat in my car.”

“It was a matter of life or death. Any minute more could have taken my life. Bailey Miller, 24, a diving instructor on the Hawaiian island of Maui, describes the hell she went through in Lahaina when she fled her home to escape the fire. She still can’t believe it. There are now 110 people killed in the fire that ravaged the island. dead and more than 1,000 missing.As relief and clearance operations continue, identification of charred bodies remains difficult.

On Wednesday, August 9, Bailey Miller sat at her window for a long time, watching objects fly toward her car from Hurricane Dora’s violent winds. Sheets were coming off its neighbor’s roof. Leave? Stay? She hesitated. Around 3pm, she starts seeing smoke. And she said to herself that she was waiting to be expelled. “But around 4 p.m., I started panicking,” she says. “My landlord’s father, Alfredo, and other neighbors were outside pouring water on their houses, doing everything to save what they had. My house, their family home, began to fill with smoke. I knew I had to get out.”