and additional support from koo and patricia yuen, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. and from the charina endowment fund. additional support for this program is from the hollyhock foundation. >> hurricane dora out in the central pacific, now just directly south of the hawaiian islands, but it is pretty far south of hawai'i... >> narrator: the day of the deadliest american wildfire in more than a century began with a hurricane. >> red flag warning, could see gusts up to 65 for these areas, mostly on the leeward side. high wind warning for just about everybody and if you don't have a high wind warning... (voice fading out) >> narrator: maui, hawai'i's second largest island, was on alert. >> they issued the red flag warning yesterday, because of the dry conditions, the hot temperatures, the windy conditions, no rain, all of that is easy to start fires and easy to spread them, especially with these kinds of winds. >> i had been watching this storm for quite a while. we knew it was coming. it's a pretty worrisome thing for all of us. everybody had canceled the