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Patients in place. if you follow directions chrks is to clear this home of pine needles, that we would be safe here. what happened next was nothing short of amazing. nurses became stand in firefighters. some getting on the roof of this home clearing gutters of brush, hosing down the edge of the property, saving this home all while their patients were kept safe inside. >> et he said you do this. you do this. and all of us shifted our minds to what do we need for survival mode. >> follow directions and they did exactly what i asked them to do. >> reporter: amid-a neighborhood devastated by the c...

Get out of her ambulance and wheeled her up this driveway on chloe court. nurse tamara followed. eventually they ran into david hawks, paradise's fire chief. >> there's a dog door here one of the paramedics made access to. we unlocked the garage, sheltered them in place. i said, hey, if you follow directions, which is to clear this home of pine needle, we would be safe here. >> reporter: what happened next was nothing short of amazing. emts and nurses became stand-in firefighters. some getting on the roof of this home, clearing gutters of brush, hosing down the outer edge of the property, savi...

Their patients were kept safe inside. >> and he said, you do this, you do this, you do this, you do this and all of us shut our minds what do we need to do for survival mode here. >> they followed directions and did exactly what i asked them to do. >> reporter: amid a neighborhood devastated by the camp fire, this chloe court home survived. so did all of the patients and medical staff inside. >> i am so happy that my home was spared so that their lives could be spared. that was that home's purpose was to save those people. >> reporter: des'ree owns this home with her husband. not long before i...

Of her ambulance and wheel her up this driveway. the nurse followed. eventually they ran into david, paradise's fire chief. >> a dog door, we unlocked the garage and sheltered in place. i said, hey, if you follow the directions, clear the home of pine needles, we will be save here. >> reporter: what happened next, emts and nurses became stand-in firefighters. some clearing glut ining gutte. saving this home all while their patients were kept safe inside. he said, you do this, you do this. all of us shifted our minds to what do we need to do to survival mode here. >> they did exactly what i ask...

Rest of today. kristin: it's good to hear the worst is almost over. adam klotz, take you so much. as a tropical storm continues to hit hawaii, the tourist industry and vacation properties across the state they're trying to get some 270,000 visitors either back home or safe inside. joining us now, the hawaii tourism authority president and ceo. how is everybody doing there? how are the many hundreds of thousands of tourists there in hawaii, how are they holding up? >> first of all aloha and good morning to you, kristin.from the very beginning, we have been working closely with our visitors as y...