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Vanessa Romo

Cell phone photos and some metadata. A son's search for his mother in Maui

Jason Musgrove, 50, flew from Houston to Maui on Monday to try to find his mother. She has been unaccounted for since Aug. 8, the day the fires in the town of Lahaina began. (Vanessa Romo/NPR)

MAUI, Hawaii — Four blurry photos of what appear to be an ash gray night sky are digital breadcrumbs Jason Musgrove has followed in search of his missing mother.

The photos are the last signs of life Linda Vaikeli shared on the afternoon of Aug. 8 from Maui, just a couple of hours before parts of the island was engulfed in a historic wildfire that has claimed the lives of at least 106 people as of Tuesday evening.

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