Theresa Cook Wiki – Theresa Cook Biography

A grandmother from California is the first tourist identified among the 115 confirmed victims of the Maui wildfires, and she died just a day before she was due to return home. Theresa Cook, 72, of Pollock Pines in El Dorado County was among eight victims identified Tuesday by island officials.

She was staying at the Best Western Pioneer Inn and was last seen near the island’s famous banyan tree at 5:30 p.m. On August 8, around the time the huge fire tore through historic downtown Lahaina. Cook was scheduled to fly to her home in Sacramento just a day later. Neighbors told ABC 10 that she had recently recounted how she saved money for the big trip to get “a little solitude and rest for herself.”

“She messaged us and said she was having a wonderful time and the island was very healing,” Cook’s daughter Melissa Kornweibel told KCRA. “It was so beautiful,” added the dead woman’s son, Adam Cook. “She loved being there.” The brothers had held out hope for weeks that her mother had miraculously survived the fire, as they struggled to find information on Cook’s whereabouts.

Theresa Cook Age

The age of Theresa Cook was 72 year.

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Kornweibel said she contacted the hotel’s property manager and another guest to ask if people had been evacuated. She learned that the guests had been evacuated, but her mother was missing. “There’s a lot to process,” Adam said. “It’s still hard to even admit it.” Still, Kornweibel said: “I don’t blame anyone.

“Things happen. Natural disasters happen. We are human, we make mistakes. We do the best we can with the information we are given.” Locals told The Post how the fire started early on the morning of August 8 when a Transformer exploded igniting dry grass on land owned by Maui County about a mile from the Lahaina Historic Boardwalk.

At 9 a.m., county officials reported the morning fire was “100% contained,” despite hurricane-force gusts still blowing into the area. They then left the scene and county officials later said first responders were needed elsewhere. But within an hour, the wildfire reignited and roared down the hill toward the ocean, destroying almost everything in its path.

Meanwhile, the heads of the Maui and Hawaii emergency management agencies were at an annual conference in Oahu on Aug. 8, the day the fires began raging through Lahaina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confirmed. ) to HawaiiNewsNow (HNN).

Key federal officials were also at FEMA’s annual disaster meeting when one of the worst disasters in recent US history began to strike on the other island, the outlet said. The officials gathered in Waikiki only became part of a “coordination call around 11 a.m. m.” The state emergency management spokesman told the local outlet what would have been almost five hours after the fires started. The death toll from the fire has reached 115 people, while the number of missing has risen to 1,100.Read More……..