Posted on 08/22/2023 11:10:56 AM PDT by John Semmens
The worst fire disaster in America's last 100 years was made worse when the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) refused to allow access to water to fight the conflagration on Maui Island for more than five hours while the fire leveled the town of Lahaina. M. Kaleo Manuel, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and DLNR's deputy director for water resource, insisted that "a discussion about equity must precede as decision to divert water resources from a previously approved distribution to an unplanned so-called emergency." By the time the water needed was approved for firefighting the blaze had grown so big that the fire had completely surrounded the water release valves--preventing any water from being used to douse the flames.
Meanwhile, over at the Maui Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) administrator Herman Andaya refused to sound its sirens to alert the population to the oncoming firestorm "because the sirens are intended to be used to warn of tsumanis. I was afraid that upon hearing the sirens people would seek high ground, which was the direction from which the fire was coming." However, when he was reminded that the Maui County website lists wildfires among the hazards for which the statewide warning siren may be used, he argued that his plan to send our texts to cell phone users "was more efficient." A flaw in his reasoning was that most of the cell phone towers were already destroyed by the fire--preventing the transmission of the texts to most of the cell phones that were called.
In related news, former President Obama reassured his admirers that "neither I nor any member of my family were ever in danger from the fire since we were vacationing at my estate in Martha's Vineyard at the time. Our mansion in Hawaii is on a different island. So it too was spared. My real peeve is with the cheapskates who only offer their thoughts and prayers for those who did suffer from the disaster when they should be offering their cash."
In a similar vein, Aquaman star Jason Momoa chastised "insensitive tourists who were enjoying their Hawaii vacations while Lahaina was burned to the ground." He urged "others to cancel upcoming trips to the islands out of respect for those killed or bankrupted by the disaster." James Kunane Tokioka, director of business economic development and tourism in Hawaii, pointed out that "the revenue from tourists is crucial to the health of our state's economy and a vital source of the funds that will be needed to rebuild much of what was destroyed by the fires."
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Someone has to be arrested for MURDER
Hawaii governor explaining why warning signals were not activated:
“When the warning sirens go off, it traditionally means a tsunami
and you should seek higher ground which in this case stupid
Mauians who cant tell the difference between a fire and a tsunami
would have run straight into the fire.”
“The fire bell is a semi-tone higher!”......and every Mauian can tell the difference......snx.
“Equity” = too white to even be allowed to protect your home.
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