Survivor grapples with Hawaii fire aftermath

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 14, 2023 12:07 am

LAHAINA, Hawaii: For three days since a hurricane-fueled wildfire tore through his town, Anthony Garcia has swept a square normally packed with tourists, but now filled with charred debris and the scorched remains of animals, trying to make sense of a catastrophe that came from nowhere.

'I can't believe that God allowed this to happen,' he told Agence France-Presse after losing everything in the fire that devoured Lahaina, a picturesque harbor on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

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