-When you lose somebody you love --
a life, even a pet --
that's what hurts.
And a lot of people lost everything.
-The morning, it was just so windy.
I was in the apartment with my family,
my mom, my little boy, and my brother,
and then we hear all the neighbors.
They was leaving already.
So I turned to the left,
and I see the apartment complex in the corner of my street
already starting burning.
So, by that time I just told my mom,
"Just grab anything right now. We got to go right now.
We got to go. We don't have a choice."
-I took my dog -- my two dogs and my bigger dog.
I was just calling him all the time,
because he couldn't see me and I couldn't see him.
I said, "Man, don't. Please don't run."
10 minutes -- that's all it took.
It was so smoky already, and I couldn't even see the way out.
By the time I got to the highway,
everything was stopped.
So the only chance I had was to go down towards Front Street.
-So, we go back, and we ended in the front street.
-A local guy started screaming,
"Get off the cars or you're gonna die!"
-[speaking Spanish]
-I jumped from the wall to the rocks,
and I turned around, and I still remember
telling the lady that was behind me,
"Get out! Because the fire is right behind you."
And she did. She did get out.
She did get out out of her car and follow me.
-I grabbed my 4-year-old. I carried him.
And we -- my mom, me, and my brother -- we jumped.
We go to the rocks underneath in the water.
-Sergio -- I tell him,
"Hey, dude. Don't go in the water, bro.
Don't go, don't go, don't go, don't go."
-If I go to the water with my baby in my arms,
it was gonna be, like, almost impossible to make it.
So I didn't.
Our decision to stay on the rocks saved us, too.
The buildings started collapsing.
Cars just started exploding.
-I saw when the whole thing really just eat everybody
that didn't come out of the cars on time on Front Street.
It's getting hot.
-That was like around 5:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
And then we stay in there
all the way to almost 2:00 in the morning.
-I'm like -- I really felt was to keep my dog safe,
because we got burned,
the ones that got into, like, really close to the wall.
I had burns all over, small ones locally.
-To be honest, it's a miracle we make it.
-And I can see...
-Everything that I love is okay,
except for my pet that didn't make it.
I did everything I could. I got him out.
But one of the little ones inhaled too much smoke
and died two days later.
[sobbing] I'm sorry.
They are my babies, you know?
I used to live with them,
just them and I.
-We lose everything.
Like, we don't have a house,
we don't have cars, we don't have a job.
-The only thing that I recover, which is broken,
was a watch that I had and I saved.
So, but this one I will keep, I got to say.
I will keep it to remind me
that I'm living on a new chance and a new opportunity.
Cannot waste it. Cannot waste it.
I've been hearing a lot of people saying, "You know what?
We've been working and working and working.
And look. We lost everything."
Now I understand.
And life is not about getting things,
but about putting memories with the people you love.
We lose everything? Yes, we did.
We lose everything,
but everybody that is still alive should be happy.
So hopefully -- hopefully we can get up soon
to rebuild the buildings, let's say, of the Lahaina town,
because the spirit, it was never been broken.
It's never gonna be broken.