> 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.
But for the love of Christ will everybody stop trying to blame someone and stop with the conspiracy crap!
Bottom line - a small brush fire that was 100% contained was whipped into a frenzy by 80MPH WINDS!
In the 22 years I lived there (+ the 10 years removed) Lahaina has never experienced this - it is leeward of the trades and usually very calm. That is why you don't see people windsurfing Lahaina. Up the road a ways into Kahana sometimes, but never Lahaina.
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?