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Lahaina Victim Story: Kenyero Fuentes
Kenyero Fuentes is one of more than a hundred victims claimed in the inferno that ravaged the historic town of Lahaina in Maui on Aug. 8.
Authorities have yet to process his remains, so he has not been added to the list of confirmed dead as of the publication of this story.
> "Everyone was running away from the flames, but we were all running toward them," she said, adding that all three split up on foot so that at least one of them might be able to reach Fuentes, who they thought might be sleeping through the terror outside.
> On the way up the hill toward the white stucco house, a woman grabbed hold of Vargas and pleaded with her to stop. "Don't go! The fire has consumed everything," Vargas remembered her saying.
> "I just looked at her and said, 'Please get out of my way. I need to save my son,' " she said.
> A few hundred yards later, Vargas came up against a police barricade, stopping people from going into the firestorm.
> "I told them my son is still in our house. I said he's at this house on this street," but none of them spoke Spanish, she said.
> "That's when I got down on my knees and threw my hands in the air," she said. They denied her entreaties. "And then I disobeyed."... (Story continued in Article below)
NPR SOURCE https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194547885/maui-fires-mother-raced-save-son-lahaina
From Khon2 interview of Kenyero's brother Josue:
> Vargas said they eventually found the remains of his 15-year-old brother, holding the family’s dog.
> “The thing I carry is, I should’ve said I loved you. I should’ve hugged him. Sometimes I should’ve stayed that day,” said Vargas. “I shouldn’t have gone to work. I could’ve been one of the victims. Or I could’ve saved my little brother.”
Khon2 Interview Source https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwCTbOHp9jw/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==
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Kenyero Fuentes is one of more than a hundred victims claimed in the inferno that ravaged the historic town of Lahaina in Maui on Aug. 8.
Authorities have yet to process his remains, so he has not been added to the list of confirmed dead as of the publication of this story.
> "Everyone was running away from the flames, but we were all running toward them," she said, adding that all three split up on foot so that at least one of them might be able to reach Fuentes, who they thought might be sleeping through the terror outside.
> On the way up the hill toward the white stucco house, a woman grabbed hold of Vargas and pleaded with her to stop. "Don't go! The fire has consumed everything," Vargas remembered her saying.
> "I just looked at her and said, 'Please get out of my way. I need to save my son,' " she said.
> A few hundred yards later, Vargas came up against a police barricade, stopping people from going into the firestorm.
> "I told them my son is still in our house. I said he's at this house on this street," but none of them spoke Spanish, she said.
> "That's when I got down on my knees and threw my hands in the air," she said. They denied her entreaties. "And then I disobeyed."... (Story continued in Article below)
NPR SOURCE https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194547885/maui-fires-mother-raced-save-son-lahaina
From Khon2 interview of Kenyero's brother Josue:
> Vargas said they eventually found the remains of his 15-year-old brother, holding the family’s dog.
> “The thing I carry is, I should’ve said I loved you. I should’ve hugged him. Sometimes I should’ve stayed that day,” said Vargas. “I shouldn’t have gone to work. I could’ve been one of the victims. Or I could’ve saved my little brother.”
Khon2 Interview Source https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwCTbOHp9jw/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==
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