“The utility said another afternoon fire started in the same area more than six hours after all of its power lines in West Maui had been de-energized, which could not be contained by the fire department and spread out of control toward Lahaina.”
Somebody is lying and trying to cover their rear ends here.
If it’s not a natural disaster, they can’t subvert the native Hawaiian sacred land laws (Lahaina is designated sacred ground), the historic district laws and rezoning laws. At least that is what I understand about the executive order that was written in July, which apparently stated that after a natural disaster, all those zoning laws were null and void.
Interesting timing though.