Posted on 08/24/2023 12:37:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Grieving parents found the body of their 14-year-old adopted son hugging his dead dog after the Maui wildfires — then carried him around half a mile to a police station to be confirmed among the dead.
Schoolboy Keyiro Fuentes had been home alone enjoying his last day of summer break when the deadliest US wildfires in a century started overwhelming his neighborhood in Lahaina, his mother, Luz Vargas, told CBS News.
The mom was working five miles away at the time — and unable to get home when she saw the smoke, despite begging cops to let her through their barriers.
When she and the rest of her family managed to search their home two days later, they found Keyiro’s charred body wrapped around his dead dog, the sobbing mom told CBS.
“He was not as I expected, in ashes,” she said of the body thought to have been preserved by the extreme heat.
“God maintained him like this. So, we knew it was him,” she said of her adopted son.
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OMG. I have no words for her sorrow.
The “authorities” were awful in this catastrophe.
Words fail me.
Just heartbreaking..so many dead children..so many..and not a peep about it in the commie press because it makes them side look so damn despicable
So sad- i hope it was quick and God Bless that dog for staying with the boy.
Reading the story it reminded me of the Texas school shooting where parents were begging authorities to let them in to find their children.
Oh yeah, sure. You can trust your government.
If that “emergency manager” had any sense of honor he’d suck start a pistol.
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Biden would comfort her by telling her he almost lost his corvette in a fire.
Biden
hugging his corvette. He feels her pain.
Shadows of Pompeii.
Same here. There will be quite a few stories like this one. Sickening. My heart goes out to them.
Heartbreaking. So many died. Awful.
Libtards couldn’t spare any water for a peasant
I just can’t imagine the horror of having to carry your dead child like that. Especially given the circumstances.
Or his poor dog
They hate everything
The poor woman. What a life of anguish she has ahead of her. I hope she can find peace.
Then, there’s this: “...despite begging cops to let her through their barriers.”
Other people have reported they ignored the barriers and police warnings to save their lives. They would have died if they had followed police orders. This poor woman now has to live with the fact that she obeyed the police instead of crashing through the barrier to attempt to save her son. It might have been better for her to perish in the flames trying to save her son rather than obey the cops and live a horrible “If I had only...” life.
>> The “authorities” were awful in this catastrophe.
No less than manslaughter. The mendacious Gaia #s should be charged, sentenced, and incarcerated.
"It is better to ask forgiveness than permission."
Grace Murray Hopper
You mean Herculaneum, at least Pompeii had some warning.
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