Posted on 08/23/2023 11:26:01 AM PDT by george76
Those who disobeyed the barricaded road closures during the Maui fires survived the disaster, while many of those who heeded orders to turn around perished in their cars and homes with no way out...
At least 114 people were killed in the fires earlier this month, and the FBI is estimating that up to 1,100 more are unaccounted for. Officials are facing increased scrutiny for the emergency response, including why the emergency sirens were not set off and whether closing the roads prevented people from getting to safety.
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Officials closed Lahaina Bypass Road due to the fires, blocking the only way out of Lahaina to the southern part of the island.
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One family swerved around the barricade set up to escape the flames, while another resident took a dirt road uphill to climb above the fire... However, many others who stayed in the cars on that road were stuck in a gridlock, with fires surrounding them on most sides
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Nate Baird and Courtney Stapleton recounted their experience to the outlet, saying they loaded the car up with their two sons, Baird’s mother and one dog to escape the flames. When they turned south to escape Lahaina, they were met with cones and were told to turn around to Lahaina, which was already burning.
Instead of turning around, they swerved past the cones and escaped to a neighboring town.
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we literally had minutes and one wrong turn. We would all be dead right now.”
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they had 10 more minutes, they could have saved children who were left home alone in their neighborhood during the fires.
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Kim Cuevas-Reyes said that she survived with her two sons by ignoring orders
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
“Hawaiians must have the IQ s of MORONS !” As a MORON yourself, put down that broad brush.
Nothing will happen to the officials who were in charge before and during this tragedy because they are all DEMOCRATS.
Exactly !
My thought as well.
Bump
Did anyone cry out..”I can’t breath?”
I think it is country wide.......
I heard he was reassigned to a non emergency part of the government. Any word where he was assigned?
From Wikipedia:
“Mazie Keiko Hirono: The first elected female senator from Hawaii, the first Asian-American woman elected to the Senate, the first U.S. senator born in Japan, and the nation’s first Buddhist senator. She considers herself a non-practicing Buddhist[1][2] and is often cited with Hank Johnson as the first Buddhist to serve in the United States Congress.[3] She is also the third woman to be elected to Congress from Hawaii (after Patsy Mink and Pat Saiki).
This is pure identity politics, the bedrock of Marxism.
Surprising since Asians have high IQs but are also subservient to authority.
When government senses that things are spinning out of control, its instinct is to clamp down, asserting control in ways that make no sense or are actively harmful — all to maintain the narrative that We Are In Control. There was a lot of this after Katrina.
Loss of life is a misfortune to these people, but loss of control is the whole world. It’s why they exist.
bkmk
We have forest fires quite often here in the pine barrens, often with only one road in and out of towns. I would think if Maui fire departments would have focuses on keeping the road open so people could escape, but then then again they didn’t have water to do even that.
“Disobeying barricades?
It’s an insurrection!”
Exactly, and the FBI will get right on it.
This needs to be front and center.
Again no plan for evacuation and incompetent leadership
Did they?
Guess what Hawaii uses to count the votes...
Please, do tell.
I learned a long long time ago to not be like sheep.
Specifically, according to accounts of four people with knowledge of the situation, M. Kaleo Manuel, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and DLNR’s deputy director for water resource management, initially balked at West Maui Land Co.’s requests for additional water to help prevent the fire from spreading to properties managed by the company.
According to the sources, Manuel wanted West Maui Land to get permission from a taro, or kalo, farm located downstream from the company’s property. Manuel eventually released water but not until after the fire had spread.
Gov. Josh Green spoke candidly Monday during a press briefing about conflicts over water on Maui – although not the DLNR-West Maui Land Co. incident directly – and encouraged news media to explore the issue. The conflicts are rooted in the diversion of water by large plantations, which starved downstream users from a resource essential for Native Hawaiian agriculture, particularly the traditional practice of growing taro or kalo.
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