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2023-08-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Maui fire investigation: Maui's top emergency officials were on a different island for a disaster training as flames flared and did not join response call until five hours after the deadly wildfires begun

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-24 06:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 No cell phone service?

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-08-24 11:26|| 2023-08-24 11:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like the FEMA guy having a glass of wine in his bath at the spa.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-24 11:27|| 2023-08-24 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Buried in the article, this needs to be a core component of the investigation: ..." Herman Andaya, the then-director of Maui County Emergency Management Agency, who defended the decision not to activate emergency warnings.

Andaya resigned on August 17, nine days after the wildfires, citing his health.

It had emerged he had no background in disaster response: Local news site Maui Now reported in 2017 that he was hired over 40 other qualified applicants.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-08-24 12:21|| 2023-08-24 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Rude to have your phone ring during the game and the 19th hole.

If they were actually in class someone could have opened the door dramatically, "Attention everyone...this is no longer a drill!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-08-24 12:28|| 2023-08-24 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Best to take everybody to important meetings. Communications are important.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-24 12:55|| 2023-08-24 12:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I think they evacuated early.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-24 14:10|| 2023-08-24 14:10|| Front Page Top

#7 And you don't send your whole top-tier response management team for 'training' at the same time.

And they were probably all transported on the same aircraft... both ways.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-08-24 16:24|| 2023-08-24 16:24|| Front Page Top

#8 they were probably at Barrys house

Posted by 746 2023-08-24 18:26|| 2023-08-24 18:26|| Front Page Top

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