When Summer Piper with the San Diego Humane Society Emergency Response Team stepped onto Lahaina on Aug. 14, she had to take a pause to process what she was seeing.
“There were a lot of burns,” Piper said. “A lot of singed fur. We could also see other types of injuries like escape mechanism injuries where they may have injured limbs, feet or have sustained lacerations.”
Her team of four divided to accomplish several missions: feeding animals, vet care, search and rescue, and trapping. The trapping mission was to find and secure cats and dogs that were skittish and potentially injured so they could be rehabilitated. Her team aided all types of animals ranging from cats, dogs, pigs, goats, horses and sheep.“Here in California, we're used to hearing hundreds of thousands of acres or even thousands and thousands of acres,” she said.
One of her biggest takeaways now that she’s back in San Diego is the reminder to always have an exit plan. “There's a lot of people out there that are hurting, that are missing,“ she said. “So, I'm sorry they're missing their family members and they may not have had time even to grab them. The more that you can prepare yourself now, the better off you'll be if you only have minutes to leave.”
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