Oprah Winfrey, who has been a part-time resident of Maui for greater than 15 years, distributed provides on Thursday on the War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku, which is getting used to shelter evacuees from the island’s lethal wildfires.

“I came earlier just to see what people needed, and then went shopping,” she said in a video from the BBC. “I actually went to Walmart and Costco and got pillows, shampoo, diapers, sheets, pillowcases.”

In the video, she carries a pillow previous rows of cots and folding chairs arrange in a gymnasium. “It’s a little overwhelming,” she mentioned.

Residents have been urging the celebrities and billionaires who own property on the island to help aid efforts. Among others, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Steven Tyler have purchased multimillion-dollar properties on Maui.

Mr. Bezos’s companion, Lauren Sánchez, shared on social media that the pair deliberate to make donations.

Ms. Winfrey owns roughly 1,000 acres of land on Maui, based on Architectural Digest. She has not commented on the standing of any of her properties, which embody the Thompson Ranch in central Maui, south of the fires there. She additionally reportedly owns tons of of acres in the Kula area southeast of Lahaina, the devastated seaside city in West Maui.

Local residents have expressed mixed feelings about Ms. Winfrey’s actual property pursuits on the island.

Yuki Lei Sugimura, a Maui County Council member, told the Honolulu-based television station KITV this 12 months that she appreciated Ms. Winfrey’s efforts to rent Maui residents and to protect agricultural land from growth. “Those are the big issues, and she’s stepping right into them,” she mentioned.