firefighters able to make forward progress despite these strong winds. even. veronica, thank you very much. and out front now, may who lives in lahaina who lost her home in the wildfire. i am so very sorry for what you re going through. it is truly impossible for anyone to truly comprehend the loss and what you ve seen, and i know watching even hearing that piece and your neighbors, it s very emotional for you. how are you even managing through this? i don t know. it s kind of a everybody says just take day by day, you know. at this point it s really minute by minute honestly. it s a roller coaster. it s like denial, i think, is a lot of it and disbelief and just shock, it s just shock. i mean, you did share some photos with us before you evacuated, and i know that when you took some of these you were standing outside. you were watching the flames,
the national guard reports they dropped 150,000 gallons of water over the fires wednesday to help suppress the flames, and while the fires still rage on, the search and rescue efforts continue. the primary focus is to save lives, and to prevent human suffering and mitigate great property loss. reporter: lieutenant governor sylvia lake toured the damage by helicopter wednesday and was shocked by what she witnessed. it looked as if just the whole town was devastated. reporter: the one road in to lahaina remains closed. people can come out, but they cannot go in, which is why you see a line of cars that goes on for miles behind us here, residents waiting on the side of the road hoping that the moment it opens they can go back to their homes or at least what is left of their community. the governor of hawaii estimating that 80% of lahaina has been decimated. there is a glimmer of good news. the fire that ravaged lahaina has now been 80% contained.
LAHAINA For fall break 2021, the Lahaina Restoration Foundation hosted a five-day Lahaina Quest Culture Camp for local students in third, fourth and fifth g