Adam Probolsky was quick to credit the local residents who helped make his family’s escape possible.
Adam Probolsky and his wife and kids jumped into a rental car packed with luggage cinched by bungee cords as towering flames grew closer to their picturesque Maui resort. It was Wednesday morning, Aug. 9. They had one goal — to get off the island.
“We could hear explosions in the distance, and every single one was a really sad case,” said Probolsky, 49, a public policy researcher from Irvine, in a phone interview from Honolulu on Thursday. “Those are propane tanks. When you heard that, you knew somebody lost a part of their life.” As the fire grew closer Tuesday, the hotel began to run out of food and basics, including toilet paper and batteries. When the resort finally lost internet service, Probolsky called his brother and best friend so they could help him chart an escape plan. He decided to stay in place until Wednesday, when there would be safer paths off the island.
“I talked to multiple employees who told me the saddest stories,” Probolsky said. “One man’s home of three generations had burned to the ground, and he was at the hotel doing security. I didn’t know what to say. This guy was working, and he was in a crisis.
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