A GoFundMe has been set to support the family with “immediate shelter, food and clothes” as they recover from the fire in Oahu, Hawaii
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- Josephine Marcos, 94, and her family were recently displaced after a three-alarm fire burned their house in Oahu, Hawaii
- A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family with “shelter, food and clothes” as they recover from the Feb. 26 fire
- Two of Marcos’ relatives were hospitalized for smoke inhalation
A three-alarm fire in Hawaii on Feb. 26 has left multiple families displaced, including a grandmother and nine of her relatives who live with her.
Tiffany Navarro, the adult granddaughter of 94-year-old Josephine Marcos, told Hawaii News Now (HNN) that her grandmother has lived in her now-burnt house on Awalai Street in Oahu since the early 1990s.
“I think she also had a picture of her [late] husband too, but it was damaged in the fire,” Navarro said. “She’s been living in this house since about 1992. This is the house that all the grandkids and her kids grew up in. So it’s very near and dear to our hearts.”
After the fire spread to the Marcos residence, nestled in the Oahu district of Waipahu, Navarro recalled calling out for her grandmother…