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Hawaii delayed diverting water that could have helped Maui wildfires, letters obtained by CNN allege
CNN ^ | August 18, 2023 | Isabelle Chapman and Curt Devine

Posted on 08/23/2023 11:42:59 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 08/23/2023 11:42:59 AM PDT by george76
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Mr Tremble must be having nightmares...


2 posted on 08/23/2023 11:45:16 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Uh oh, looks like someone at CNN didn’t get the memo that they’re supposed to blame everything on Climate Change.


3 posted on 08/23/2023 11:45:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Forgive a possibly ignorant question:

Lahaina is on the ocean. For an all out emergency like this, couldn’t salt water have been fed through pump trucks to save at least part of the city?


4 posted on 08/23/2023 11:47:11 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Vote Democrat.


5 posted on 08/23/2023 11:47:54 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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CNN is behind the curve. The guy with the water is a Pantheist and thinks Casper the Ghost lives in the streams and we must not disturb Casper even to save ~1000 lives and billions of dollars of property. The guy should move to kommiefornia. He’d be elected gov of the state.


6 posted on 08/23/2023 11:48:03 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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Beat the drums! Dance around the fire! Save the water for the earth! The Green Movement is neanderthal thinking that wants to enslave the masses.


7 posted on 08/23/2023 11:54:47 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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Global Warming killed hundreds of people on Maui.

Global Warming closed the roads.
Global Warming shut off the water.
Global Warming refused to trigger the Sirens.

Damn that Global Warming!


8 posted on 08/23/2023 11:55:24 AM PDT by MMusson
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Why did he not divert the water first and ask for permission later?

Does he think writing a scathing bureaucratic screed will quiet the ghosts of the dead children that he let burn because of lack of water?

This is not a “man”, but a testicle-free trans-demon pretending to be large and in-charge.


9 posted on 08/23/2023 11:55:44 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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Will Salt Put Out A Fire? - FirefighterNOW
Salt is a brilliant choice for fighting fires for three key reasons: it doesn’t burn, it has a high melting point, and it is effective at smothering a flame. The salt that you have at home as table salt is just a crystalized form of sodium chloride.

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Unless I’m missing something, Glenn Tremble is FOS. This fire, or a large part of it, was according to pictures, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean. No shortage of water there!

What we are seeing in Lahaina is that the bureaucratic mind is a dangerous, indeed murderous, thing.

Presuming there were firetrucks in Lahaina, a firetruck is nothing more than a PUMP. What’s the stated reason for NOT using them to pump water out of the ocean?


10 posted on 08/23/2023 11:56:24 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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Fires happen, you would think someone at the Fire Department or the Emergency Management agency would have voiced concern that some hydrants were dry. Obviously there was no emergency management plan to deal with fires and I would suspect neither were their adequate plans for tsunamis or hurricanes. The Director of Emergency Management was a political hack without any experience in emergency management and likely just collected a fat salary for doing next to nothing.


11 posted on 08/23/2023 11:56:58 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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They do fight fires with water from the ocean using helicopters with crucibles.


12 posted on 08/23/2023 11:57:00 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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When state, local, and federal governments and agencides are acting like Woke corporations, you aren't going to get a well-organized and effective response to an emergency.

You're going to get the government equivalent of this:


13 posted on 08/23/2023 11:57:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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CNN is so dumb. Don’t they understand that water must be doled out in ways that are equitable? /S


14 posted on 08/23/2023 11:57:30 AM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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CNN is behind the curve. The guy with the water is a Pantheist and thinks Casper the Ghost lives in the streams and we must not disturb Casper even to save ~1000 lives and billions of dollars of property. The guy should move to kommiefornia. He’d be elected gov of the state.

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True statement, but suburban and independent voters who have to be the “pampered and coddled” while given a binki every election are into climate change hysteria.


15 posted on 08/23/2023 11:57:54 AM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge scoundrel)
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I’ve only known this for 2 weeks. To them it’s breaking news. I guess they couldn’t sweep it under the rug any longer.


16 posted on 08/23/2023 11:58:56 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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pump trucks? they operate on fossil fuel! NOuh!


17 posted on 08/23/2023 11:59:21 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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You need electricity to pump water. The fire started when the electric lines to the city broke. There was no power. And there are no pumps for that purpose.

This was DIE in action.


18 posted on 08/23/2023 12:01:07 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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Wow! Pretty cool even CNN reported on this...


19 posted on 08/23/2023 12:01:17 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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“Hours went by, Tremble wrote in his August 10 letter, before his request was approved.”

A letter? Unbelievable.


20 posted on 08/23/2023 12:04:41 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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