[libh8er]

It’s in the middle of the freaking Pacific and they didn’t have water to fight fire. Lahaina is right there by the beach.

[rottndog]

Lahaina is right there by the beach.

That is irrelevant to this situation. Lahaina was full of very old wooden buildings. It was a tinderbox waiting for a lit match. The high winds made the fire impossible to fight once it reached the historic buildings.

[VTenigma]

The fire was so big and moving so fast being driven by 80 mph wind fighting it with ground based apparatus would have been suicide. The way to fight that fire was to drastically reduce the fuel loads beforehand. There was lots of overgrown vegetation and piled flammable junk in the area. The po co should have cut power too.