These Displaced Red Hill Families Are Tired Of Staying In A Waikiki Hotel … Nearly three months into a water contamination crisis, thousands of military-affiliated families have found their daily lives drastically transformed.
Six-year-old Ben Camp, an aspiring Spiderman, misses his bedroom.
“Mine has a dinosaur bed,” he said. “It’s really comfortable.”
The boy, whose father is on deployment with the Coast Guard, has instead been sharing a bed with his mother while his 11-year-old sister sleeps in the other one after the trio had to move into a cramped Waikiki hotel room in early December.
The family is one of around 4,000 displaced from their homes following a leak at the Red Hill fuel facility that contaminated the water supply for some 93,000 people in the Pearl Harbor area.
