Maui wildfire survivor from Issaquah remembers tense moments on 1-year anniversary

Kristina Lee-Garrido and her friend became trapped in a swimming pool as flames surrounded their rental property.

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — One year after the Maui wildfires, a nurse from Issaquah is looking back on the tense moments she and a friend became surrounded by an inferno while on vacation in Lahaina.

“I have so many thoughts about it, but honestly the main one is that I still feel extremely fortunate,” said Kristina Lee-Garrido. “The cards were not with us that day, or anybody in Lahaina. Nobody knew what was happening. For anybody to have survived that is pretty incredible.”

Lee-Garrido and her friend were

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