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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Ouch.
That seems like a crass or facile indictment, JZ.
Thanks for the reminder.
That was such an idiotic episode in Hawaii’s recent history.
LOL!!! Hawaii is like an INDIAN RESERVATION!
He was the Chief-of-Staff of the former mayor of Maui County.
His appointment as Emergency Manager was justified by claiming that he took many on-line emergency response training classes.
-PJ
Right.
How hard would that have been to devise and set up, and to educate the local populace about, prior to a firestorm torching crispy dry West Maui?
YOU hired the MORON!
Meanwhile the lovely Opry Winford is busily buying up all the scorched Hawaiian land she can. The new purchases will be added to her already sizeable holdings.
I suspect the former emergency manager will suffer no legal or financial consequences, and after this blows over, will be rewarded with a lucrative sinecure at some woke university.
Ugh. Never been a believer in online training courses myself.
On the leeward side around Lahaina is mostly a gradual slope. The gulches and steep valleys are on the wet side, like the road to Hana and Iao Valley. Those areas don’t have brush fires. Underground power lines are all over the newer planned Maui golf course communities like Kapalua and Wailea.
I never once believed that it qualified me to oversee the potential lives of 2,000 people and the property of an entire habitable island.
-PJ
Here's Biden's response to the Maui tragedy.
“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.”
We have those same sort of sirens on our military bases. They have the warning tone followed by a voice recording of what the threat is, or if it’s a test.
Even on the county website, it states at least a half dozen reasons for the use of the sirens.
Governor....“When the warning 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.”
...to "the world"?
Agreed. It is shameful. All these people dead because of a political appointee who had zero training or experience.
However, experience shows us they will feel no shame or guilt.
The Governor is creating a scape goat. There must be one, there’s no way around it.
Now the lawyers can dredge up deep pockets to sue
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