Engagement Ring Found in Maui Wildfire Ashes Offers Hope

📍Kula, Maui, was devastated by the recent wildfires, but as volunteers sift through the ashes, they are finding belongings that survived, including an engagement ring. 

⛑️Samaritan’s Purse, a Billy Graham Ministries’ organization, flew in volunteers to help with the cleanup. These individuals are working together to offer those who lost everything the mementos that survived, via Hawaii News Now.

One of the volunteers, Gabrille Bouquet, said, “The best find at this site was finding the daughter her mom’s engagement ring.”

“They are still searching for (the daughter’s) engagement ring, but to have one thing like that means so much. It is really precious,” she added.

Another 📍Kula resident, Ross Hart, noted his appreciation of the volunteers. He said, “It’s hard by yourself digging and scraping through the ash.”

“You start finding things and then pretty soon you are off track and you’re going everywhere. These folks are more focused and they know what they are looking for,” he went on.

“Everything burns up. There’s a few things, precious things, memory items that survive, sometimes intact — but usually not,” he concluded.