Parents find remains of teen son hugging dead dog in Maui home destroyed by wildfire

NY Post ^ | August 24, 2023 | By Ronny Reyes

[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.

[metmom]

That is the stuff nightmares are made of.

Those poor, poor parents and that poor kids who burned to death.

What horrific pain.

[sjmjax]

The “authorities” were awful in this catastrophe.

Worse than that. They were complicit.

[gundog]

[Albion Wilde]

You mean Herculaneum, at least Pompeii had some warning.

They were both affected, multiple heat-preserved corpses of people and animals have been excavated. Been to both. So sad.

Many of the ones who did escape Vesuvius' wrath by plunging out into the water, like in Lahaina, also died from inhalation, exhaustion or drowning.

[llevrok]

My dang eyes are wet. So sad.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This was premeditated genocide by Oprah and Mark.

[pierrem15]

The “authorities” were awful in this catastrophe.

Depraved indifference to human life and suffering.

[cableguymn]

I wouldn’t want to be the “official or authority” between me and my kid.

I’ll leave it at that.

[cableguymn]

that would be to easy... He should use the same method he forced the others to die in.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[null and void]

*sigh*

[hellinahandcart]

Amen.

[null and void]

How did the electric workers get out alive ?

Fires burn down wind, away from the starting point...

[ought-six]

“The ‘authorities’ were awful in this catastrophe.”

That’s a fact. And likely Democrats, one and all.

[ought-six]

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

No kidding.

[Ann Archy]

Pompeii had no persons helling the destruction......MAUI DID.....DEMOCRATS AND THEIR STUPID GLOBAL WARMING POLICIES AND TOTAL INCOMPETENCY HELPED KILL 1000 people...just in MAUI!

[ought-six]

Okra in her mansion.

[ought-six]

“Jesus wept.”

Yes. And He is holding both the boy and his dog in His arms right now.

[mware]

I believe this is true.

[Tennessee Nana]

Heartbreak...