Posted on 08/18/2023 12:23:46 AM PDT by Enterprise
LAHAINA, Hawaii (FOX26) — Update: Herman Andaya has resigned from his position as Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator as of Thursday evening.
Original Story: Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator, Herman Andaya, spoke during a news conference Wednesday following the devastating fire in Maui, Hawaii.
During the conference, a reporter asked if he regretted not sounding an alarm as a means of alerting those within the impacted area.
His response: “I do not.”
According to Andaya, the siren is mostly used for tsunamis, and sounding the alarm during the fire would have put more people in danger.
“Had we sounded the siren that night, we were afraid that people would have gone mauka and if that was the case, then they would have gone into the fire,” said Andaya.
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Timeline: How the deadly wildfires took over Maui day by day
Before 11 p.m. A security camera at the Maui Bird Conservation Center, located in the east Maui region of Upcountry, captures a bright flash in the woods just before 11 p.m.
12:20 a.m. Just after midnight, a brush fire was reported in the Kula area in the central part of Maui, according to officials. This would become the Upcountry Maui wildfire.
6 a.m. In the early morning hours, around 6:30 a.m., a brush fire of about three acres was reported around Lahainaluna Road, which passed through this historic town of Lahaina in West Maui.
9 a.m. The fire in Lahaina was declared 100% contained just before 9 a.m., according to Maui County officials.
3 p.m. Officials report the perimeter of the Upcountry fire has spread about 1,000 acres and reached as far as Kualono Place near the Kula Lodge.
Around 5 p.m. The situation in Lahaina grows increasingly dire. The next hour becomes a collection of life-or-death decisions for those who remained in Lahaina. Video footage captures people fleeing the blaze, in some cases abandoning their cars, jumping into the ocean or pools for safety.
9:45 p.m. Mayor Richard Bissen issued an emergency proclamation in response to the fires.
The more I read about this guy...the less I believe he was actually qualified for the job.
They spent a fair amount of money for this siren-alarm system, but never envisioned how it would be used. There’s probably more planning and forethought in Japan or South Korea....than in Hawaii.
He may not have been qualified to do the job, but he was qualified as a DEI official, whose job it was to ensure water equity.
The Maui Emergency Administrator needs to remove the smoke alarms from his own home too.,.. and that of all his family members...
The “water equity” guy is a different official, also an indigenous Hawaiian, who believes water is not to be used but to be worshipped. The entire bureaucracy there appears to be nothing but young DEI hires with no qualifications…this one majored in “Hawaiian Studies.”
Looked this up: “Gone mauka” doesn’t mean gone crazy or berzerk, but merely that they headed uphill. Mauka means the mountainous side of a road, as opposed to Makai, which means the ocean side of a road.
I see. He was in charge of siren equity.
Never understood the modern use of sirens. In the old days, there was a certain technology that allowed very loud noises. But the current sirens simply look like they should be capable to be general loudspeakers, capable of broadcasting instructions.
Population reduction is like eating an elephant. One bite at a time. The Ukes and Russians are dying why not us. Maui, Chicago, yada, yada, yada. Every little bit helps folks. /s
Complex systems + diversity incompetents = catastrophic disasters.
But that is not what happened in this case.
This was a simpler risk that sensible decision making could have helped a lot.
But even here, the diversity clowns managed to do a lot of damage and get a lot of people killed unnecessarily.
Much greater disasters than this will happen in the future due to selection and promotion of these fools.
He's a democrat nutcase. I'm sure if his mother or family lived in the threatened area he called them on the phone and told them to get out. By law he should never be allowed to have a smoke alarm in any house he lives in the rest of his life.
Good points. Where I live, we get Amber Alerts regarding child abductions or missing, in real time.
Why can’t all phone/computer systems have a similar emergency alert system designed for not only missing children but for other safety hazards as they have in tornado zones/alerts?
An F3 tornado on the ground 15 miles north of me sent a loud beeping and read Take Cover Immediately! to my cell phone.
Pretty sure people were running for their lives in Lehaina at about 3:30 pm.
Good idea - it would be fairly easy to set up. With a natural disaster having both alarm and notification would work best - the alarm wakes you up and let's you know to look at your phone or TV for details. We have Amber alerts where I live too.
But isn’t this equity stuff all BS....like unicorns, vampires, etc?
So they needed a guy to talk about imaginary stuff?
Progressives kill.
Liberals have to learn the hard way.
I don’t say that liberals need death camps because I wish them ill will. They need to experience the death and destruction that comes with their value system before they will question their beliefs.
Of course there is. This is Hawaii.
From what I read they did send alerts to cell phones, etc. But the power and cell service were already disrupted when they did that.
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