{"id":120,"date":"2024-04-03T03:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T03:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2024-05-03T04:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:38:53","slug":"alara-berkmen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/index.php\/alara-berkmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Alara Berkmen"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"120\" class=\"elementor elementor-120\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0683b5c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0683b5c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12f2504 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"12f2504\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-163\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1-1623x1080.jpg 1623w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1-2000x1331.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hawaii-club-8-2048x1363-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Daily Trojan \/ Tomoki Chien<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c7de297 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7c7de297\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11c23a97 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11c23a97\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a few days after the L\u0101hain\u0101 wildfires, Berkmen had to stay inside because she had childhood bronchitis and the smoke would irritate her lungs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI felt really powerless because I was just inside and I was just watching it from my house,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the fires was 100. More than 2,000 structures were damaged. The estimated cost to rebuild is $5.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-align: var(--text-align);\">Berkmen said she remembers wildfires occurring when she was younger, but nothing to this extent. When the once-booming sugarcane and pineapple industries slowed in the 1940s, a lot of the area became filled with flammable, invasive grasses that colonizers had originally brought to Hawaii.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a1f4cf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2a1f4cf\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a1c62e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7a1c62e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4883800 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4883800\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9490-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-165\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9490-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9490-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9490-810x1080.jpg 810w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9490-rotated.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">A burnt neighborhood in Kula that Berkmen came across on her way to check on her friend's mom. (Courtesy Alara Berkmen)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-311100c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"311100c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4036753 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4036753\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere were times when I couldn\u2019t get home from practice where the highway would shut down because there\u2019s a fire and I would get stuck in Kihei,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m lucky that I live close to hotels, so generally the greenery is more maintained around where I live. Otherwise it would put tourists at risk. So I\u2019ve never had the fire come close enough to home where I felt where we were advised to evacuate, but I have felt the need to evacuate especially in this last fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere&#8217;s something just like impending about the whole situation,\u201d Berkmen said. \u201cIt just felt like you\u2019re constantly waiting for something worse to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Once the area around her house was clear, Berkmen started volunteering in the recovery efforts with her family. She helped with item distribution but saw her family tend to severe cases. Her mom was treating a patient who had burns across his body, and there was another patient who\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">couldn\u2019t<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be treated<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0because all his identification documents had burned in the fires.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the perspective of people on the ground, it didn\u2019t feel like we were getting any help,\u201d Berkmen said. \u201cSo it was nice to know that at least there were enough people to help in some way.\u201d<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e7375ed e-grid e-con-full e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e7375ed\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ebf4b32 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ebf4b32\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8533-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-271\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8533-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8533-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8533-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8533-810x1080.jpg 810w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_8533-rotated.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">The sky was orange the morning after the fires. (Courtesy Alara Berkmen)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d95e599 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d95e599\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9482-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-166\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9482-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9482-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9482-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9482-810x1080.jpg 810w, https:\/\/ascjcapstone.com\/spring-2024\/jennapet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_9482-rotated.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">An orange flash was the first thing Berkmen saw when she got home from L.A. 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