“I saw service in my mom and in my grandmother. It affected me and made me want to serve others as well.” Elsa Ecsedy is a Maui local who signed up as an event-based volunteer with the Red Cross after the devastating wildfires in Lahaina. She was eager to help her community, knowing many people who were personally affected. “Several of our employees were affected. They lost everything the night it happened,” Elsa said. “They returned home to find out there was nothing left for them.” The wildfires brought back difficult memories for Elsa, who lost her home in 1982 after Hurricane Eva. It was the day before Thanksgiving, and she was a junior in high school. Elsa’s mother, Dee Dee, served as a local volunteer alongside the Red Cross after the hurricane. Her family distributed water and relief supplies to older people in the area, while Elsa, who served as a Red Cross youth president, watched the children of those affected. “We babysat the children so their parents could sit down w...