Maui is in desperate need of help and the foundation has stepped in to fill the gaps and find the people that aid isn’t getting to quickly enough. On Wednesday, another foundation ship helped transport fuel to first responders in Lahaina. Dozens of employees from across the organization kept the momentum going and created a grassroots network that’s identifying needy individuals and families, and finding out what supplies they need.
Why would anyone with their entire lives upended be doing anything besides trying to regain some semblance of stability? Edgar Rodriguez is there, even though the wildfire turned his home, car, personal belongings and his workplace – he bartended at Fleetwood’s on Front Street in Lahaina – into cinders. The only thing left in Lahaina of Rodriguez’s father Benny, a foundation employee, is his truck. Foundation Captain Dan Kraver has no home and is wearing the same clothes he wore on Wednesday.