A woman is sharing her harrowing fight to survive a fast-moving inferno on Hawaii’s Maui Island.
Cochran told NBC Bay Area that she grabbed a few belongings and her pet minah bird chickadee and jumped in her car.
But Cochran didn’t get far. She hit gridlock as people abandoned their cars and tried to outrun the flames. For hours, Cochran and dozens of others clung to a rock wall or waded in the ocean, including 19-year-old Noah Tomkinson, his 13-year-old brother Milo and their mom. “When the cars started exploding, it went off one by one. It was incredibly scary, and I could feel the ground shake,” she said.After several hours in the cold water, the Tomkinsons and Cochran were finally rescued. Now, she’s living in a shelter and taking on a new fight: to improve the emergency alert system
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