She posted on social media Thursday about the heartbreak of having to leave the young children behind after filling her bus' 72-seat capacity. Kuanoni even offered to remove her own kids from the bus.

The bus was extracted by D&D Towing and driven to the Roberts Hawaii base yard to undergo minor repairs before returning to service. Water service in the area was shut off from 3:30 to 10 p.m.

Recently the state DOE reinstated 11 bus routes on Maui and 63 routes throughout the state, including a route to Maui’s west side that started on Aug. 26.

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