-PJ
In one of the Real Estate guys videos, a video of a now jobless cleaning woman (Connie?) who respected the cops and tried to follow the orders to stay behind barricades, she voiced this same concern about the cops who were stationed at the barricades, but she didn't know their fate.
As for her, after having driven the length of the town to the north, she turned around from the blocked traffic and drove back to the Pualani neighborhood where she started. There she lucked upon an unmanned barricade that I guess led to an even more southerly back entrance to that neighborhood that was beyond any manned barricades. She followed a large truck that breached it to escape.
I'd suppose being at the front of the line, the cops who found their barricades untenable either waved through the cars that were still operable and not stuck behind abandoned cars, and then left themselves, or they could also have just closed up shop and left ahead of the other lucky survivors-to-be. One source said of first responder losses: "Nine police officers and 18 firefighters from Lahaina lost their homes, according to officials from both unions. Two firefighters and two retired firefighters were injured. Two fire trucks were destroyed." No mention of loss of life, so there probably wasn't any.
I would not assume that. When it got a lot hotter, the cop was in the perfect position to drive away.