“I hate to admit it, but this latest information about the power lines points to arson as a cause.”
I am in “Pollyanna” mode, thinking maybe some homeless person had a fire that got out of control. Early morning drunk or stoned and did not attend the campfire.
Seems like the power company did what was needed (they say the have records to support that), not a fan of the “energy beam weapons stuff”. So we have various agencies that failed at critical times, police, fire, and several government agencies, water, etc. They seemed to have been staffed with people who had some Hawaiian native goals and no real disaster training
I guess there’s the possibility of an unattended campfire, but that’s hard to picture with the winds that day. Does Maui have homeless? One interesting thing about the islands, the humidity is such that mildew grows almost overnight.