Posted on 08/27/2023 3:11:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, car after car of fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a desperate race for safety.
And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30.
One family swerved around the barricade and was safe in a nearby town 48 minutes later, another drove their four-wheel-drive car down a dirt road to escape. One man took a dirt road uphill, climbing above the fire and watching as Lahaina burned. He later picked his way through the flames, smoke and rubble to pull survivors to safety.
But dozens of others found themselves caught in a hellscape, their cars jammed together on a narrow road, surrounded by flames on three sides and the rocky ocean waves on the fourth. Some died in their cars, while others tried to run for safety.
“I could see from the bypass that people were stuck on the balconies, so I went down and checked it out,” said Kekoa Lansford, who made several trips into town to look for survivors. What he found was horrible, Lansford said, with dead bodies and flames like a hellish movie scene. “And I could see that people were on fire, that the fire was just being stoked by the wind, and being pushed toward the homes.”
The road closures — some because of the fire, some because of downed power lines — contributed to making historic Lahaina the site of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. But there were many problems that day, and in some ways the disaster began long before the fires started.
A flash drought in the region provided plenty of kindling, and Hurricane Dora brought strong winds to Maui as it...
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Or maybe just knowledgeable, well-read.
Or maybe just having a good memory for detail.
Or maybe just being prolific.
Or maybe just being consistent to a core belief and not joining the mob of the moment.
-PJ
I’ll bet that you’re a very decent person.
Most of us decent people can’t even imagine how many monsters who enjoy inflicting pain and death walk among us.
They’re everywhere, not only in positions of power.
I learned that lesson the hard way but now my eyes are open.
Thanks for additional proof points that you comment like an ass.
It just comes down to what we do with it.
-PJ
I really wonder what the people of Hawaii are going to think, since they voted for these people who then made the appointments that they made.
I'm really interested in what Maizie Hirono says and does next. She's another person who was voted in by the same mass hypnosis in Hawaii that led to the Maui disaster. So far, she blamed everything on "climate change." She, at least, has the defense of being in Washington DC at the time and was removed from the local incompetence.
She still represents the overall Hawaii culture of incompetence in DC. Fortunately, she's up for reelection in 2024.
-PJ
Hi kiddo
Kinda like staying in a building the had a plane crash into it
I’m from the government and I’m here to help. It sounds like they forced people back into the fire because there might have been power lines down on the road leading away from the fire. A lot of things happened that caused the death toll to rise. Blocking the road, broken alarm, faulty fire hydrants and sending the kids home from school early.
Our government is trying to kill us!! We need to keep our guns. This is why they want our guns...they can kill us if we give up our guns...
Just leave it to the government to folk everything up.
Who gave the order to block the only road out?
Did you read the article?
Did you read the article?
Read the article. The police did not block exit routes. This is just pure misinformation, and freepers just read headlines and don’t give a sh-t about facts.
I just read the article...
Who gave the order to close the roads?
And yes, the roads were blocked..
I support your comments. The attacks on you are not reasonable. We know that the police blocked an escape route. We don’t know why. We don’t know who gave the order. We don’t know on what information the person was acting on when the order was given. We do know that the situation was dire and chaotic and that intelligent people needed to be in charge. Intelligence is not required to be appointed by Democrats, and it proved deadly didn’t it?
“We did not close or forbid people from getting out of Lahaina,” Pelletier said. “If there was a downed power line that was live, we wanted to make sure that you didn’t go over a downed live power line.”
"Meanwhile, police officers knock down a fence to help others escape."
If you read the article, you would have seen these sentences, and then you would know why some portions of roads were blocked. You'd also know that passable roads were not completely blocked. If you actually read the article and still think orders were given to block passable roads, then you are incapable of independent thought.
Thanks for the words of support. You can see the larger picture.
The attacks on me are irrelevant. They are a product of anonymous keyboard jockeys looking for a brief thrill. I've already moved on to other matters.
-PJ
Did you read the article?
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