'We'll probably need counselling after this because of the nightmares we're having'. A couple living in Maui says they are receiving aid following the wildfires in Hawaii, but the mental recovery will be a 'long process'. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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Noah Tomkinson, 19, was with his younger brother Milo, 13, and their mother in the historic town of Lahaina when the flames began to spread dangerously close."We kind of had it in the back of our minds the whole time that we wanted to be next to the water so [when] things got really bad we could save ourselves by jumping into the ocean, and that is what it came to," Mr Tomkinson said.Mr Tomkinson said he and his brother huddled around their mother to keep her warm.
"It was pretty intense, you could see everybody running for their lives, people crying, people handing their babies to other people," Mr Cicchino told Sky News.He described chaos as"the smoke got so intense, we didn't even know where to go" and the emergency services did not know where to send people, leading people to get stuck in traffic amid blocked roads.
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