You're going to get the government equivalent of this:
Posted on 08/23/2023 11:42:59 AM PDT by george76
A state agency delayed a water management company’s request to make more water available to fight the devastating wildfires on Maui earlier this month, according to letters obtained by CNN.
Glenn Tremble of the West Maui Land Company, which manages water supply companies, complained in a letter to the deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management that the agency failed to quickly approve his company’s request to divert stream water to nearby reservoirs.
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Hours went by, Tremble wrote in his August 10 letter, before his request was approved. Tremble told CNN by that time, his company’s water system manager left the area to evacuate his family and other staff couldn’t be reached.
Tremble said he made his initial request on August 8, when the fire ripped through Lahaina.
He and his colleagues watched the fire spread “without the ability to help,” Tremble wrote.
“We anxiously awaited the morning knowing that we could have made more water available to (the fire department) if our request had been immediately approved,” he wrote. … We know that we need to act faster during an emergency.”
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This isn’t the first time West Maui Land Company and the state’s water commission have been at odds.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Mr Tremble must be having nightmares...
Uh oh, looks like someone at CNN didn’t get the memo that they’re supposed to blame everything on Climate Change.
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?
Vote Democrat.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Will Salt Put Out A Fire? - FirefighterNOW
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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?
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.
They do fight fires with water from the ocean using helicopters with crucibles.
You're going to get the government equivalent of this:
CNN is so dumb. Don’t they understand that water must be doled out in ways that are equitable? /S
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.
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.
pump trucks? they operate on fossil fuel! NOuh!
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.
Wow! Pretty cool even CNN reported on this...
“Hours went by, Tremble wrote in his August 10 letter, before his request was approved.”
A letter? Unbelievable.
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