people who jumped in the water to just to survive this and who were huddled along front street here. >> we were expecting the worst on the way in, so we had -- we had big spotlights up, flashlights searching. it was -- there was so much smoke in the air, your flashlight beam would only go about 100 feet or so. >> david: as we look at it here, you can see that people had no place to go, other than the water or the one road out of town. >> yeah. >> david: i mean, they were trapped. >> sorry. >> david: it is still too raw. captain riley coons is a third generation hawaiian, and captain travis dewater. they were both there that night. >> it looked like a zombie apocalypse, everything was on fire. everybody was just covered in soot. >> david: their faces were covered in soot from the fire? >> yeah. i mean, everything. >> david: everything. >> everybody was kind of covered in soot. >> david: so many people who were actually even in the water were holding a t-shirt up to their face just to breathe through it?