As people fled Maui fires, pets did too
PUUNENE >> A dog with hind legs bandaged tightly from paw to hip whimpered in pain through a plastic medical cone, chest rising and falling quickly in shallow breaths.
The animal is one of the pets and people bearing marks of their escape from the smoke and flames of Maui wildfires that claimed more than 100 lives and destroyed a historic town.
“We have seen animals come through our shelter that have severe, severe burns,” said Katie Shannon, director of marketing and communications at Maui Humane Society. “We have seen dogs that have essentially had their paws all the way burnt down to the bone from running from the fire.”
