A West Jordan family who lost an uncle and their multigenerational family home in the Maui fires is now sending help to Hawaii.
WEST JORDAN — A West Jordan family who lost an uncle and their multigenerational family home in theIt started as a small family fundraiser but has turned into a communitywide effort with places like the Ogden police department jumping in to help and let this family know they don't have to deal with their loss and pain alone.
"With nothing but the clothes on their back. And she said that they were covered in ashes," Wolfgramm said, explaining what her family told her. "And some of them had been burned and stuff from the fire." Phillips, her husband, two children and mother-in-law had just left the family home in Lahaina last week about an hour before the fast-moving flames came toward the house.
It wasn't until over the weekend that Uncle Leroy's body was found, still inside the family's house. They said it appeared he went into his room as far away from the fire as possible and hunkered down against a wall. Lana Phillips, who said her husband and kids were only wearing bathing suits when they left, are just trying to survive."I can't even tell you when I got a stick of deodorant, and like how much that was," she said. "When you went days without brushing your hair, brushing your teeth, like the bare essentials — like those things were so important for us who have had nothing."
At first, the Lapales and Wolfgramm shared a small family fundraiser on their personal social media accounts and planned to send a few boxes of the bare essentials.
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