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Hawaii governor: Ex-emergency manager's response "utterly unsatisfactory"
CBS news, MSN ^ | 8/20/23 | Caitlyn Yilek

Posted on 08/20/2023 12:49:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Washington — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Sunday he wished sirens would have alerted residents on Maui to evacuate as a wildfire quickly spread through Lahaina, calling the response by the island's now former emergency chief "utterly unsatisfactory to the world."

"Of course, as a person, as a father, as a doctor, I wish all the sirens went off," Green told "Face the Nation." "The challenge that you've heard — and it's not to excuse or explain anything — the challenge has been that historically, those sirens are used for tsunamis."

"Do I wish those sirens went off? Of course I do," he said. "I think that the answer that the emergency administrator from Maui, who's resigned, was of course utterly unsatisfactory to the world. But it is the case that that we've historically not used those kinds of warnings or fires."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: fire; hawaii; lahaina; maui; scapegoat
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To: nuconvert

He was vacationing in Boston.


21 posted on 08/20/2023 1:17:46 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: Skywise
DRAG THESE BUMS OUT OF OFFICE.

Although I have no hope that it would ever happen, what's needed is a massive -- ultra massive -- electoral defeat of Democrats at all levels. It's the only way they can be pushed back.

22 posted on 08/20/2023 1:18:37 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: mware
Why didn’t they release the water to fight the fire?

Diversity hire. D.I.E.

23 posted on 08/20/2023 1:19:13 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: DallasBiff

See the cartoon and comments.

Maui vultures
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1693256811812466962


24 posted on 08/20/2023 1:20:13 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: DallasBiff

He got elected last year because while lieutenant governor, he achieved fame as a branch covidian on socia media spewing corporate propaganda in a folksy, “in your face” manner. The low IQ masses (60% of Hawaii’s electorate) loved him after that.

And not for nothing, as a resident of the state, whenever you hear those horns, you head inland for higher ground ASAP. If those tsunami horns had been activated during a power outage (no tv, cellular, or internet) many more people would have died fleeing inland and into the fire, and the those local politicians would all be drawn and quartered alive.

The first thing they should is to take all of the electric supply underground.


25 posted on 08/20/2023 1:21:06 PM PDT by Garden Island
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To: P-Marlowe
Diversity hire. D.I.E.

"I don' know nuthin' 'bout releasin' no water, Miss Scarlett!"

26 posted on 08/20/2023 1:21:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DallasBiff

Any sufficiently advanced mismanagement and incompetence is indistinguishable from malice and domestic enemy action.


27 posted on 08/20/2023 1:22:51 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-AaA)
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To: DallasBiff
Josh Green says the buck stops with Maui officials, not at his corrupt feet. If the Green had any honor, he would of called a press conference on August 9th pertaining to his Seppuku ritual. Progress would have been made.
28 posted on 08/20/2023 1:28:04 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: DallasBiff

No sirens, cops blocking escape. You are now warned. Be ready to deal with it.


29 posted on 08/20/2023 1:28:19 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: mware

> Why didn’t they release the water to fight the fire? <

The guy in charge of the water once said there must always be a conversation about water “equity” before any water is released. That idiot belief is probably what slowed things up. Not kidding here.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/hawaii-official-worried-about-equity-over-water/


30 posted on 08/20/2023 1:29:31 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real. )
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To: Steely Tom

Because the DUMBASS in charge of the sirens said he was afraid the people would run TOWARD THE FIRE!

AND WHY WAS ALL COMMUNICATION DOWN RIGHT BEFORE?


31 posted on 08/20/2023 1:31:11 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
Because the DUMBASS in charge of the sirens said he was afraid the people would run TOWARD THE FIRE!

Hmm. Maybe he knows his people.

32 posted on 08/20/2023 1:32:16 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DallasBiff

Good thing he wasn’t in charge of London’s air raid sirens in 1940.


33 posted on 08/20/2023 1:32:37 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: mware

The water guy WORSHIPPED THE WATER....some Lefty Democrat weirdo crap about the water being sacred.


34 posted on 08/20/2023 1:32:38 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Steely Tom

To be fair, it’s for Tsunamis.


35 posted on 08/20/2023 1:34:36 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy; All


36 posted on 08/20/2023 1:34:43 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-AaA)
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To: DallasBiff

When the sirens go off it traditionally means a tsunami and you should seek higher ground - which in this case would have been to run straight into the fire.

My statement is not to make an excuse - just stating a fact.


37 posted on 08/20/2023 1:35:20 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: DallasBiff

He allowed people to be burned alive all for “Equity” this is the Democrat party and how they run things..they base your life on your skin color and if you are not the “Right” skin color, they will let you and your family get slaughtered


38 posted on 08/20/2023 1:35:45 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 1FreeAmerican

> When the sirens go off it traditionally means a tsunami and you should seek higher ground - which in this case would have been to run straight into the fire. <

Fair point. But you’d think they’d have different blasts for different warnings.
Maybe long blasts for tsunamis, short blasts for fires.


39 posted on 08/20/2023 1:39:53 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real. )
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To: DallasBiff

But But But
Just on Wednesday, I read how his Excellency Josh Green said that he thought Herman Andaya the Emergency Administrator had done the right thing and he supported him all the way.
What a difference a few days make.


40 posted on 08/20/2023 1:40:20 PM PDT by Tupelo (ex uno multis)
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