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Emotional moment Hawaiian broadcaster reveals on-air that he lost four relatives to wildfires
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0:43Now PlayingA Hawaiian broadcaster described the devastating loss of four relatives to the Maui wildfires as a “gut punch” in a heartbreaking moment live on-air this weekend – as the death toll in the horrific blazes nears 100.
Hawaiian News Now journalist Jonathan Masaki Shiroma revealed Saturday that four of his loved ones were among the 96 people confirmed to have died as they tried to flee the US’s deadliest wildfire in more than a century – and that he had at least one other relative still missing.
“It’s like a gut punch,” Shiroma told LiveNOW from FOX Saturday.
“You hear the words of devastation, and then you realize that the hometown that, as a child, [you were] playing in the cane fields and near what was the Pioneer Mill, you know, and then the hearing that family members lost their lives as they tried to leave the flames that just engulfed so quickly, and one still remained missing – it becomes so personal,” he said.
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