'You could see red from the fires': B.C. traveller recounts harrowing escape from Maui wildfire

As she looked out the window, Olivia Hung saw the fire coming. 

The resident of Richmond, B.C. — just south of Vancouver — had been visiting friends in Lahaina, Maui, when the power went out on Tuesday. There was no running water, and cell service had been cut. 

But no one had told them to evacuate. 

“The whole sky was smoke,” she told B.C. Today host Michelle Eliot during an emotional interview on Thursday. 

“You could see red from the fires.”

WATCH | Olivia Hung says Maui wildfire evacuation was ‘hectic’: B.C traveller gets home from Hawaii after fleeing wildfires: ‘It’s never going to be the same’1 day ago

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Olivia Hung’s recent trip to Maui

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