Ex-Stratford man and his family left homeless on once-idyllic Pacific island

THE ferocious wildfires which ravaged Maui have left a former Stratford man and his family - who live on the island - homeless and reliant on the generosity of others to survive.

Michael Griffiths, 31, his wife, Abby, and daughters, Isabel, ten, and Eloise, seven, lost everything during the disastrous fires on 8th August which have claimed the lives of 114 people to date and completely wiped-out neighbourhoods, buildings and miles of green space.

What was once Michael and Abby’s idyllic family home in Lahaina, Maui, is now piles of ash and is part of a burnt wasteland littered with the wrecked shells of cars and their children’s blackened bicycles only recognisable by the shape of the wheels.