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Parents find remains of teen son hugging dead dog in Maui home destroyed by wildfire
NY Post ^ | August 24, 2023 | By Ronny Reyes

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: fire; maui; mexicoinhawaii; perpsrotinhell; petping; whyhugdeaddog
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1 posted on 08/24/2023 12:37:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OMG. I have no words for her sorrow.


2 posted on 08/24/2023 12:39:40 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “authorities” were awful in this catastrophe.


3 posted on 08/24/2023 12:39:53 PM PDT by madison10
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To: SE Mom

Words fail me.


4 posted on 08/24/2023 12:40:05 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸 Selling out the U.S.A.: The Briben Brand™)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


5 posted on 08/24/2023 12:41:55 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


6 posted on 08/24/2023 12:42:33 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh yeah, sure. You can trust your government.


7 posted on 08/24/2023 12:42:50 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (The B.S. Regime)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If that “emergency manager” had any sense of honor he’d suck start a pistol.

L


8 posted on 08/24/2023 12:43:29 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
How tragic.

Biden would comfort her by telling her he almost lost his corvette in a fire.

9 posted on 08/24/2023 12:46:19 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ( Biden-Fetterman in ‘24: It's a no brainer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden
hugging his corvette. He feels her pain.


10 posted on 08/24/2023 12:46:23 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shadows of Pompeii.


11 posted on 08/24/2023 12:47:09 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
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To: NautiNurse

Same here. There will be quite a few stories like this one. Sickening. My heart goes out to them.


12 posted on 08/24/2023 12:48:26 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Heartbreaking. So many died. Awful.


13 posted on 08/24/2023 12:48:38 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Libtards couldn’t spare any water for a peasant


14 posted on 08/24/2023 12:48:47 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just can’t imagine the horror of having to carry your dead child like that. Especially given the circumstances.


15 posted on 08/24/2023 12:49:46 PM PDT by voicereason (When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
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To: NWFree

Or his poor dog

They hate everything


16 posted on 08/24/2023 12:50:02 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


17 posted on 08/24/2023 12:50:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: madison10

>> The “authorities” were awful in this catastrophe.

No less than manslaughter. The mendacious Gaia #s should be charged, sentenced, and incarcerated.


18 posted on 08/24/2023 12:50:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...despite begging cops to let her through their barriers....

"It is better to ask forgiveness than permission."

Grace Murray Hopper

19 posted on 08/24/2023 12:50:48 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Shadows of Pompeii.

You mean Herculaneum, at least Pompeii had some warning.

20 posted on 08/24/2023 12:51:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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