8, Susan Burch was at her Lahaina home playing games with neighbors to celebrate her 62nd birthday when a friend frantically knocked on her door, saying her house was on fire.... Susan Burch, 62, in an undated photo.... She slept in a car with her friend for a few days before resting in the home of people she had met just three days prior. Burch is now scheduled to fly back to Mundelein on Tuesday to mourn her brother, who died last week, unrelated to the fire....

“ Oh, no, ” Robin Underberg, who works at the Four Seasons on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, warned us.... “ You’re not riding there.” “ There ” was Lanai City and the road to it was so steep she worried we wouldn’t make it.... She was drying off after snorkeling in Hulopo’e Bay on this rural island west of Maui....