HONOLULU (AP) — Maui police held a news conference on Monday to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town in August, including video of officers rescuing 15 people from a coffee shop and taking a severely burned man to a hospital.
Earlier this month, Maui County provided the AP with 911 call recordings in response to an open records request.
Officers ushered out 15 people from the coffee shop as smoke swirled in the sky around them, loaded the group into police SUVs and took them to the Lahaina Civic Center.
In another clip, an officer finds a badly burned man at a shopping center and put him in the back seat of his patrol car.
The fast-moving wildfire on Aug. 8 killed at least 99 people and burned more than 2,000 structures.
Persons:
John Pelletier
Organizations:
Lahaina Civic Center, Co
Locations:
HONOLULU, Lahaina, Maui County, Wailuku, Hawaii