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?
They do fight fires with water from the ocean using helicopters with crucibles.
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.
That would require marine fire pumps that can handle salt/sea water. Running gray water through the systems will not corrode the equipment.
If they had done so without approval, the GOV would have held them liable for the equipment and the EPA could have slammed them with fines because the salt is an alkaline that can harm native plants, etc.
The threat of death by a thousand cuts ultimately resulted in an estimated 1,000 deaths.
A “Who is John Galt?” moment if ever there was one.
Great question.