From FL lawyer Jeff Childers’ Coffee and COVID newsletter this morning:
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“The Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO), which Maui County just tried to make the scapegoat for the Lahaina fires, responded Sunday by blowing a hole right amidships of the S.S. Narrative. The Post-Millennial ran the story yesterday headlined, “Hawaiian Electric says power lines were shut off hours before wildfire.”
To further make the point, the sub-headline added, “Records “conclusively establish” that power lines to Lahaina had been de-energized for six hours when the afternoon fire broke out.”
Uh oh.
You may recall from last week’s C&C post that Maui County sued HECO, claiming that the power company negligently failed to cut the power off even though it had ample notice from windy weather advisories and Tarot cards about what was going to happen. Specifically, Maui claimed HECO “inexcusably their power lines energized during forecasted high fire danger conditions.”
They were just guessing.
Maui County’s lawsuit went so far as to boldly claim the wildfires “could have easily been prevented” if HECO had only shut down the power. I mocked Maui for suing so quickly before anybody even knows yet what happened.
Welp. On Sunday, Hawaiian Electric announced that it had, in fact, de-energized all its power lines in West Maui hours before the devastating wildfires broke out. It even presented evidence. Whoops!
I guess HECO does not intend to take the blame for Maui.
In its statement, HECO said Maui’s poorly-conceived lawsuit “may leave no choice in the legal system but to show responsibility for what happened that day.” Which is exactly what I predicted would happen.
Maui is going to regret trying to pin the blame on well-funded HECO, which can easily afford lawyers and investigators. So far, the government has carefully avoided picking fights with opponents its own size, who can afford full-on litigation, like when they let Wal-Mart and Amazon continue operating while they were locking down small groceries and stores.
Try again, Maui.”
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