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. Head of Maui emergency services resigns after defending not activating warning sirens.
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 ...
That probably would have been Maui’s “highest-ranking official”.
Maui’s Emergency Command Center was on auto-pilot.
You know, like Washington, District of Corruption.
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.
Sounds Benghazi
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.
“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?
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).
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.
. Head of Maui emergency services resigns after defending not activating warning sirens.
Well we should find out when FJB summons him/her/it to the White House to receive the Bidenskyyyyyyy Golden Medal of Freedumb.
Nobody knows nothing.
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.
And like Benghazi, this wasn’t manslaughter.
It was murder.
Safe and Effective bureaucracy.
At this point what difference would it make?/S
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.
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.
Someone who took home a nice paycheck as emergency supervisor every day there wasn’t an emergency.
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