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Maui’s mayor ‘not sure’ who was in charge at emergency management center as Lahaina burned
Hawaii News Now ^ | August 29, 2023 | By Allyson Blair

Posted on 08/30/2023 3:54:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

HONOLULU - Three weeks after a wall of fire claimed at least 115 lives and turned historic Lahaina to ash, Maui County’s highest-ranking official said he didn’t know who was calling the shots at the county’s Emergency Management Center the day the town burned.

“I’m not sure who was in charge. (Former Maui Emergency Management Administrator) Herman Andaya was still in charge. He just wasn’t present. He was in contact with his team. I guess by phone. I don’t know exactly how,” Bissen said, during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

When questioned about his whereabouts that day, Bissen said he attended a virtual meeting with other state and county leaders that morning to discuss the multiple brush fires that had broken out on Hawaii Island and Maui. But he wouldn’t tell reporters where he was the rest of the day.

“I don’t have that. I don’t have that for you,” he said.

He also couldn’t explain why the head of Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara, wasn’t notified anyone had died until the following day. “I don’t know who spoke to General Hara,” Bissen said. “That’s my answer to your question.”

A reporter then asked Hara: “We don’t know how many people maybe died waiting for a response. You don’t think there was anything your agency could have done?”

Hara responded: “Personally, I don’t think so.”

For weeks Hawaii News Now Now has been asking questions on who was in charge of Maui's Emergency Command Center the night of the deadly fire.

(Excerpt) Read more at hawaiinewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bloodytheirhands; duhimthemayorduh; fire; hawaii; hermanandaya; idunno; lahaina; maui; stupidliberals
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1 posted on 08/30/2023 3:54:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That probably would have been Maui’s “highest-ranking official”.


2 posted on 08/30/2023 4:02:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Asylum IS NOT A CHOICE!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maui’s Emergency Command Center was on auto-pilot.
You know, like Washington, District of Corruption.


3 posted on 08/30/2023 4:04:03 AM PDT by Tupelo (ex uno multis)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh my, reminds me of what took place when Katrina hit New Orleans. But the Media Party will continue to blame Republicans as they did back in 2005.


4 posted on 08/30/2023 4:04:09 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds Benghazi


5 posted on 08/30/2023 4:04:52 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The entire municipality of Maui sounds as competent as your local DMV office.

I say with with no offense intended to the few good DMVs out there.


6 posted on 08/30/2023 4:05:17 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Hawaiian fire drill”. Run about, scream and shout, till someone knocks them out.

What happens when no adults are allowed in the room.

Who are these “officials”, five-year-old preschoolers?


7 posted on 08/30/2023 4:08:04 AM PDT by alloysteel (Take back the rainbow. Its use by LGBTQ is cultural misappropriation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; rlmorel
For weeks Hawaii News Now Now has been asking questions on who was in charge of Maui's Emergency Command Center the night of the deadly fire.

George Soros? Klaus Schwab?

Chances are good that this was all rank incompetence and stupidity, but the way people were trapped by all this apparent government malfeasance from escaping the fire smells to high heaven.

There's Hanlon's Razor, and then there's Nolnah's Razor (h/t to rlmorel).

8 posted on 08/30/2023 4:08:04 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re trying to avoid finding out who told the idiot cops to block all the exits from Lahaina. Hundreds died because these feckless morons kept people trapped in the conflagration.


9 posted on 08/30/2023 4:08:21 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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Head of Maui emergency services resigns after defending not activating warning sirens.

10 posted on 08/30/2023 4:08:32 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well we should find out when FJB summons him/her/it to the White House to receive the Bidenskyyyyyyy Golden Medal of Freedumb.


11 posted on 08/30/2023 4:10:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Asylum IS NOT A CHOICE!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nobody knows nothing.


12 posted on 08/30/2023 4:17:48 AM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I don’t know what is behind all this, or if it is indeed just rank incompetence, but I have learned to never underestimate the perfidy that can be attributed to Leftists.

Leftism is a pox on humanity.


13 posted on 08/30/2023 4:19:13 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Recompennation

And like Benghazi, this wasn’t manslaughter.

It was murder.


14 posted on 08/30/2023 4:21:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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The biggest dummy of them all.


15 posted on 08/30/2023 4:24:23 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Tupelo

Safe and Effective bureaucracy.


16 posted on 08/30/2023 4:26:11 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: mewzilla

At this point what difference would it make?/S


17 posted on 08/30/2023 4:29:47 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The vast majority of Democrats today are Obama political activists. They have ZERO critical thinking skills and have been indoctrinated since 1st grade in leftist tropes. Just like Daddy and Daddy’s Daddy, Mao, they only know revolution. Anything that is good, must be destroyed. They have no vision of the future, just constant revolution.


18 posted on 08/30/2023 4:30:46 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That, is Hawaii in a nutshell.
Incompetence, and likely nepotism, is D-Hawaii.
From top to bottom, incompetence that could have mitigated this disaster in numerous ways.


19 posted on 08/30/2023 4:31:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone who took home a nice paycheck as emergency supervisor every day there wasn’t an emergency.


20 posted on 08/30/2023 4:31:12 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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