Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood have shared statements on the Maui wildfires, which have left at the least 80 lifeless and have devastated the city of Lahaina and its surrounding areas. Nicks owns a home close by, and on Saturday afternoon she posted a message on social media reflecting on the catastrophe.

“There was no approach to know that this wonderful city that had survived a lot for thus lengthy would burn down and disappear into the historical past books, leaving a lot disappointment, destruction, and dying behind it in its wake,” Nicks wrote. “This island, in so some ways, defines Fleetwood Mac and me and our households.”

“The Lahaina that we knew~ The Lahaina that in some ways join Fleetwood Mac and our music to the world, is gone,” she went on. “However my recollections of all the things that occurred to me there’s clear as a bell.”

Right here’s her full assertion:

As I’m certain you have got heard – the island, Maui, the place I personal a home I’ve been staying at because the 80s — and the small village, metropolis, most magical place on earth, Lahaina, burned to the bottom over the previous couple of days. And to make the scenario worse my younger niece, her husband, and their little boy had simply arrived for a really wanted trip earlier than she began up her college 12 months (on her approach to turning into a psychologist) for 10 days. That they had one and a half days of enjoyable after which – the hearth began. The ability went out at 5:12am (Tuesday morning) however that they had no concept why – It was nonetheless out at midday, realizing that many surrounding homes had additionally misplaced energy. It was a thriller. My home is 15 to twenty minutes from Lahaina – however nonetheless nobody knew concerning the fireplace. We knew right here in Houston, however there was no approach to get Jessi (my niece) on the cellphone. The complete space of Lahaina and all the things round it was down. However right here in Houston… we knew.

There was no approach to know that this wonderful city that had survived a lot for thus lengthy would burn down and disappear into the historical past books, leaving a lot disappointment, destruction, and dying behind it in its wake. This island, in so some ways, defines Fleetwood Mac and me and our households. Mick and I got here right here in 1978, went as much as Kula to take a look at an enormous, lovely home and stood in entrance of it listening to the mild magical wind. He mentioned to me ~ “I’ll reside and die on this island.” I knew he was telling the reality. John additionally lived right here in Maui for a very long time – Christine by no means lived right here however visited many occasions.

My reality was that I needed a home right here simply so I might spend time in Lahaina strolling the streets; visiting the artwork galleries~ sitting on the rock wall~ Most all of the opals I put on on my fingers got here from a retailer on Entrance Road. I hope the candy woman who owned that retailer was in a position to seize all her opals and run. I hope she made it out.

Over the subsequent two days we managed to get Jessi and her household again to us. They put their little boy (he’s 6) within the again seat with an iPad so he wouldn’t see the devastation on the drive up previous Lahaina to the airport. However they noticed it ~ and Jessi and her husband Alec are devastated. Now that they’re again in LA and seeing the information protection ~ they’re completely freaked out. The escaped a bullet. My home and the encompassing space was not burned. The wind took the hearth in a unique course. It was all concerning the wind. Jessi mentioned there have been three doves on the home the entire time. There have by no means been doves there, ever. The tip end result might have been very totally different.

The Lahaina that we knew~ The Lahaina that in some ways join Fleetwood Mac and our music to the world, is gone. However my recollections of all the things that occurred to me there’s clear as a bell. I’ll nonetheless stroll these streets ~ nonetheless watch the sundown from the various cool eating places that we drove in to see each night time ~ I’ll see Mr. Fleetwood’s lovely new restaurant rebuilt and glowing in the course of Entrance Road – I’ll bear in mind assembly Sharon Celani, my candy singer, on the Blue Max in 1979. In my desires I’ll see Lahaina from the ocean ~ beckoning all those that are on boats again to the marina the place the Pioneer Inn waits, and the Banyan Tree dances within the wind~

Lahaina just isn’t gone~
It’s simply away~

With Aloha, Stevie Nicks

As Nicks mentions in her message, Mick Fleetwood opened a restaurant in Lahaina referred to as Fleetwood’s On Entrance St. in 2012. It has been destroyed within the fires, he revealed in an Instagram put up a couple of days in the past. “MAUl and The Lahaina neighborhood have been my house for a number of a long time,” Fleetwood wrote. “It is a devastating second for MAUl and plenty of are struggling unimaginable loss.” He continued:

Fleetwoods on entrance Road has been misplaced and whereas we’re heartbroken our essential precedence is the protection of our pricey employees and crew members. On behalf of myself and my household I share my heartfelt ideas and prayers for the individuals of MAUI. We’re dedicated to supporting the neighborhood and people affected by this catastrophe within the days month and years to return
– Mick Fleetwood