and amanda cassidy is a lahaina resident who said she lost everything in this fire and she joins us nowgood morning. >> ainsley: amanda, i'm so sorry. i can't imagine what you are going through. you survived katrina and now you moved to hawaii and you are experiencing this. how do you handle it? >> stay focused. >> ainsley: yeah. how do you know -- tell us what happened. were you at home and you got the alerts and you fled? >> so, there were no alerts. there was no emergency sounds. they did not send -- sound off the tsunami warnings. we do that every month on the first of the month. the sirens sound. they did not do that as a warning to get out. the fire started just behind my house maybe a half a block away. i smelt fired. i went outside. i saw smoke. and i saw that it was dark so i was like okay, quickly, let's move, let's pack. my boyfriend watched the fire to, you know, give us warning about, you know, how quickly it was moving. and he went from okay, you are good. okay, you are good. keep packing to let's go, it's time to go. and so we -- that's why we left is because we were righ