'You can hide from a bullet, you can't hide from a fire'
David sits on the grass outside Maui's War Memorial Stadium, which usually hosts university American football games, but is now accommodating hundreds of people displaced from their homes.
Like so many in Lahaina, David was unprepared for the ferocity and speed of the flames. He jumped in a car with friends but they got stuck in gridlock traffic behind others trying to flee."I said, 'we've got to jump out of the car and run' because the traffic wasn't moving. They didn't want to get out of the car. I ran for my life and they stayed in the car. Three of my friends in one car and two dogs died. I saw one friend dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal.
The Hawaii blazes have caused at least 93 fatalities, passing a grim milestone to become the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century - and Hawaii's governor Josh Green said the number of fatalities was certain to rise.For the first time, sniffer dogs arrived in Lahaina to hunt for human remains in the piles of smouldering wreckage. But only 3% of the ground has been searched so far, with police chief John Pelletier warning of an agonising wait for families of the missing.
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