Maui mother racing home to her boy was held up by barricade and told area had been cleared. She returned later to find his body clutching his dog.
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JOSEPH MACKINNONAugust 24, 2023
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Hawaiians have been subjected in recent weeks to a horrific ordeal that saw Maui transformed into a crematorium and hundreds of lives lost. It appears as though bad government maximized their suffering.

Progressive politics reportedly helped set up Maui to burn and delayed the supply of critically needed water. Distrusting of how the public might react if given a proper warning, Herman Andaya, the now-resigned administrator of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, chose not to sound the alarm when wildfires started to ravage Lahaina. While other officials had been warned years in advance that the historic town faced high wildfire risks, they dragged their feet on preventive measures, partly resulting in a "lack of early evacuations and unpracticed escape plans," according to the New York Times.

It is now also clear that those who survived the blazes were often residents who disregarded orders from local and state authorities.

Misplaced trust in those authorities reportedly all but guaranteed one mother's bereavement.

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Luz Vargas ran a cleaning service in Lahaina and was working the day her town was reduced to ash and ruin. Her adopted son, Keyiro Fuentes, who would have turned 15 on Sunday, was five miles away at home, enjoying the last day of his summer vacation.

CBS News reported that when Vargas and her husband, Andres, learned about the threat of the fires, they jumped in the car and desperately tried to race home to their son.

"I was told, 'Don't go, don't go,'" Vargas told CBS News. "But I responded, 'My son.'"

Encountering gridlocked traffic and in a race against time, they ditched their vehicle and continued on foot. However, they were met with another obstacle: a police barricade.

NPR reported that police were barring people from going toward the firestorm.

"I told them my son is still in our house. I said he's at this house on this street," Vargas recalled, noting that a language barrier further frustrated her efforts.

"That's when I got down on my knees and threw my hands in the air," said Vargas. "And then I disobeyed."

Vargas slipped past the officers on melting flip-flops and was reportedly taken by a man on a motorcycle to the fiery front. When she attempted to enter the fire zone, first responders reportedly assured her the area had been cleared, that no one remained, and to "have faith" that her son had escaped.

With the understanding that their son and others in the area had been cleared out, Vargas and her husband waited for the boy to turn up at Honokowai Beach, routinely checked in with authorities, and tried calling around.

Unable to find or hail Fuentes, Vargas made her way home two days later, where she discovered that the area had not been cleared and that at least one person remained.

The mother found her boy dead in his bedroom, still clutching his dog.

"He was not as I expected, in ashes. God maintained him like this. So we knew it was him," said Vargas, who prayed over Fuentes' body, "Please God, hold him for me."

Andres and Vargas' son Josue reportedly wrapped the boy's charred body in a tarp and carried it a half-mile to a police station.

Josue, the victim's brother, told CBS News, "He was too young. If we still had time, I know he would have been a very, very, very good man."

The Associated Press indicated that barricades erected by authorities did not just slow Vargas' rescue efforts in town, but prevented some Maui residents from escaping the hellish blazes.

West Maui residents attempting to flee the fires attempted to exit via the only paved road out of town, but authorities had reportedly set up a barricade, barring access to Highway 30. As a result, numerous cars were sent back into the flames, resulting in a number of people perishing in their vehicles.

Those who disregarded the barricade managed to survive, including one family who ignored the barricade and drove around it. Having ignored the instruction of authorities, the family ended up safe and secure in a nearby town 48 minutes later, reported the Associated Press.

A man who similarly had no time for these restrictions drove his four-wheel-drive vehicle down a dirt road to safety, while another went uphill to safety — precisely where Herman Andaya worried residents might go if he sounded the warning sirens.

While the fire department had reportedly temporarily closed the Lahaina Bypass road due to the fire, thereby sealing the only route out of Lahaina to the south, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier later claimed officers never prevented people from getting out of town but rather sought to prevent them from driving over downed power lines.

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Amazon mistakenly left my package on my neighbor’s doorstep so I retrieved it. My neighbor is now accusing me of stealing because she saw me on her Ring doorbell and says she never received her Amazon item. How can I prove I didn’t steal her package?
I work for a postal administration where this happens and the number of people that ask me if they should just go retrieve it or if we could go get it back for them is unbelievable. Unfortunately with us there’s no photos taken and I advise customers to call the seller for next steps rather than confronting neighbors or going to recover their own package. And this is exactly why. Even though it’s your package the approach here should’ve been different. Rather than taking the package it would’ve been best to just quickly knock on her door and say hey sorry Amazon delivered my package to your address just here to pick it up. She would’ve seen the label and that’s it done deal. You do have a photo with Amazon if you go to your account and your orders so you can prove yours was delivered there but sometimes they only take a photo of half the door not the number. Sometimes they don’t even show the label in the photo. What can be done now is she can check her orders to see where hers was delivered and if she doesn’t have it she can contact Amazon. They can provide a refund or reship the item.

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Donald Trump At War With Melania Over Son Barron Ultimatum: Ex-President Believes ‘It’s Time for his Son to … get Involved in his Public Life’
By Aaron Johnson,

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The marriage crisis engulfing Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania for using son Barron as a “political pawn” has the couple divided over the 17-year-old’s public life.

The one-time president — facing a historic four indictments — is at odds with his wife of 18 years after he dragged the pair's only child into the middle of his campaign.

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As RadarOnline.com exclusively revealed , Melania is “seething with fury” after The Donald, 77, posted a photo of the rarely-seen high schooler on social media in an attempt to belittle President Joe Biden .

But Donald, according to sources, “believes it’s time for his son to accept his legacy and get involved in his public life, like his older siblings.”

Trump has always staunchly had the support of his four other children: Donald Trump Jr. , 45, Ivanka , 41, Eric Trump , 39, and Tiffany Trump , 29.

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“He has always believed, despite Melania’s wishes, that Barron would walk in the same footsteps as Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany,” a family insider told RadarOnline.com.

“But Melania has again made it very clear that’s only going to happen over her dead body.”

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The source added it has set up a “war” between the couple, who have not been together seen since they posed for photos at Ivanka’s daughter Arabella’s birthday. The duo held a private dinner with the 11-year-old weeks before they missed out on her Bat Mitzvah in June 2023 .

Sources said Melania, who has avoided the campaign trail this time around, has no intention of assisting Donald to win back the White House. She has also been absent from his various criminal proceedings.

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Sources close to the situation revealed Melania had privately threatened to move from Mar-a-Lago to New York — which would leave her husband all alone in Florida.

“That would be devastating to Donald,” a source dished. “With all the negative press swirling around him, the last thing he needs for his public image is another broken marriage.”

Before the blowup over Barron, The New York Times reported the former first lady had been keeping her inner circle extremely tight.

Melania speaks to her stylist, and her hairdressers, according to the sources. The insider said she would “sometimes” meet Donald for dinner.

For his part, Donald has remained pretty mum on his wife's lack of public support.

"It's always unpleasant when you have to go in and tell your wife that, 'By the way, tomorrow sometime I'm going to be indicted,'" the 2024 hopeful said during a July 28 episode of The John Fredericks Show . "And she says, 'For what?' And I say, 'I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea.'"

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2 men arrested after violent, midday attack in Poughkeepsie
By Blaise Gomez,

1 day ago
Two men are under arrest after a vicious assault Sunday in Poughkeepsie involving a three-car crash and several people in the middle of the day.

Viral witness video of the ordeal shows one man waving a firearm in the middle of Maple Street Sunday afternoon with cars and people all around. Two men are seen beating two other men on the ground with their fists, a baseball bat and their feet.


Witnesses are heard screaming and seen trying to get away in their cars. Another is seen walking over trying to help while the violence unfolded feet away.

One woman News 12 spoke didn’t want to be identified but said her daughter was playing outside when it happened and witnessed the ordeal.

“She’s the one who called me and said, ‘I’m scared. There was an accident and the people got out of the car and started fighting,’” said the woman. “Why does a 6-year-old have to see that?”

City of Poughkeepsie police say the two victims were hit in their car by two cars driving the wrong way and then were run over when they got out.

They say one victim was stabbed during the attack.

Authorities didn’t reveal if the victims were targeted or if it was road rage, but say 43-year-old Rakim Paulin, from Beacon, and 40-year-old Jeremy Taylor, from Poughkeepsie, are under arrest.

Authorities say one of the victims is in critical condition and that the other was treated at the hospital and released.

“Something has to be done,” said the neighboring woman. “Something has to be done. It’s not fair.”

Both suspects are charged with assault and attempted assault.

Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call City of Poughkeepsie at 845-451-7577.