Ian Barnes was off duty when the Maui fires ravaged his home. After getting his two young kids to safety, the first responder joined the search and rescue efforts, working around the clock to find those who jumped into the ocean while fleeing the deadly fires.
When the fires began on Aug. 8, Barnes was hanging out with his two kids, ages 4 and 6. The power had been off since 4 a.m., so he ran out to buy ice and water.
“Then like 30 minutes later you could see smoke kind of going over the building and it shaded out the sun. It got super dark, almost like it was nighttime,” he recalls. “When that happened, I realized that we should move up north.” “We did search and recovery on the jet skis out in front of Lahaina. And then I did that for a couple days,” says Barnes, who specializes in water rescues. to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
“Everybody’s doing something,” he says. “The smoke was still coming off the land. There's a lot of diesel and gas in the water because the harbor burned down. A lot of boats floated out of the harbor that were stuck on the reef. A lot of debris in the water just from all the wind.”Barnes lived in a 5-story apartment building in Lahaina. “The whole thing burned down,” he says.
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