Oprah Hands Out Supplies at Maui Wildfire Shelter After Deadly Blaze

Oprah helps her ohana on Maui … personally delivering essential provides to of us who misplaced all the pieces within the lethal wildfires that worn out an historic city.

The media mogul, who’s one in every of Maui’s largest non-public landowners, visited wildfire victims Thursday at a makeshift reduction shelter … passing out cots, pillows and toiletries.

Video exhibits Oprah giving a person in a cot a pillow, and he seems bandaged. Oprah reportedly provided to purchase provides for the shelter, which is overrun with of us who misplaced their properties within the lethal blaze.

Oprah shared moments with evacuees at Battle Memorial Gymnasium in Wailuku, which is getting used as a shelter and a drop-off location for donations and provides, even taking a second to pose for photographs.

Oprah owns greater than 1,000 acres on Maui … together with in Hana and Kula, which is in one of many areas the place the fires are raging. The blaze fully worn out Lahaina, an historic city and fashionable vacationer vacation spot.

Maui’s been completely devastated by the wildfires that ripped by the island this week, and as of Friday the dying toll stands at 55. Along with the tragic lack of life, hundreds of buildings burned to the bottom.

Of us on Maui have been pressured to flee the flames with simply the clothes on their backs … in order that they want all the assistance they’ll get.

TMZ broke the story … boxer Floyd Mayweather is paying for 68 households displaced by the fires to fly to security and keep in a lodge for a number of weeks, and he is additionally footing the invoice for his or her meals and clothes.