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911 calls from Maui capture pleas for the stranded, the missing and those caught in the fire’s chaos
AP ^ | 22 Jan 24 | Rebecca Boone

Posted on 01/22/2024 6:47:40 PM PST by rey

The day after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century destroyed a seaside community on Maui, the barrage of 911 calls didn’t stop: Reports of missing people, stranded family members and confused tourists trapped without food or water lit up the emergency lines every few minutes, interspersed with reports of new fires starting and older ones flaring back up.

The 911 recordings from the morning and early afternoon of Aug. 9 were the third batch of calls released by the Maui Police Department in response to a public record request. They show how first responders and emergency dispatchers — many of whom had already worked long hours during what was likely the most harrowing experience of their lives — continued to be hindered by limited staffing and widespread communication failures.

Several callers reached out to 911 throughout the morning asking for wellness checks for relatives or friends they couldn’t reach. Cell communications were still down in some areas. Authorities told people to call the nonemergency police number to file missing person reports or so that police could check with the Red Cross and other volunteers who had registered evacuees at the shelters.

But callers who couldn’t get through on the nonemergency line, turned to 911.

“My house is in Lahaina, in the fire area. And I have not been able to contact my husband. Is there any way that I can get someone to drive by the house?” a woman asked just after 1:30 p.m.

Another caller at about 9:45 a.m. called to report that his wife was missing.

“She should be in Lahaina. She went to work yesterday,” the caller told a dispatcher.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fire; lahaina
Excerpt. Lots of links at site.

Don’t count on help to be there during a large disaster. Self prep.

1 posted on 01/22/2024 6:47:40 PM PST by rey
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2 posted on 01/22/2024 7:01:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Remember the 1,000 missing children and then, all of a sudden the story disappeared?

I'll go out on a limb and say those kids never existed, but were enrolled in school and, probably, the welfare system.

Ghost kids.

3 posted on 01/22/2024 7:42:58 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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From what I’ve read it increasingly looks like the elites wanted that land and killed these people to get it cheap.


4 posted on 01/22/2024 8:10:46 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: BenLurkin

sick...hope she enjoyed the show


5 posted on 01/22/2024 9:41:24 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: BenLurkin

LET THEM EAT POI!


6 posted on 01/23/2024 3:51:22 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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BTT


7 posted on 01/23/2024 10:17:11 AM PST by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION.)
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To: Eagles6

Not ghost kids. This is typical in every community that burns. You are going through one of the worst times in your life if not the worst.

The last thing on your mind in the middle of the months long chaos that ensues in your upturned life is to contact the school. School records are where those numbers came from. Many people left, enrolled in other schools, enrolled in schools to where they left to, they are not going to contact the previous school.

These things are quite chaotic. I’ve been to a number of these. The numbers of missing and dead are highly exaggerated, and not through any nefarious actions, it’s simply confusion. They always drop dramatically as things progress, information becomes clearer, and things settle down.

Lahaina had a population of 13,000. The demographic in those communities tends to be older. The entire town did not burn. 1000 missing kids just considering those factors was rather high, but I don’t think it was intentionally deceptive. And who knows what were the actual numbers put forth by agencies and how the press may have exaggerated.


8 posted on 01/23/2024 10:25:40 AM PST by rey
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This is true.

Many, if not most, relocated.

But, I will venture that any heavily blue area, whether city or state is going to have a "rat king" and, hence, massive amounts of fraud.

I, just, found it odd that one day there was mass concern over 1,000+ missing children, then, the next week, the story disappears, with no explanation.

Like the Las Vegas massacre, we'll probably never know the truth about the Lahaina fire.

9 posted on 01/23/2024 12:55:35 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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