{"id":1999012,"date":"2023-08-12T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/questions-raised-over-warnings-in-maui-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:28:46","slug":"questions-raised-over-warnings-in-maui-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/questions-raised-over-warnings-in-maui-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns Arise Regarding Warnings in Maui Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fquestions-raised-over-warnings-in-maui-wildfires%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Tragedy Strikes \u2064Maui: Death Toll Rises to 80 in Devastating Wildfires<\/h2>\n<p>MAALAEA,\u200b Hawaii\u2014The death toll from the \u2063Maui wildfires\u2064 rose to \u206380 on Friday as search teams combed \u200cthrough the smoldering ruins of Lahaina, and Hawaiian officials sought to determine\u200c how\u200b the inferno spread so rapidly\u200d through the historic resort \u200btown\u2064 with little \u2064warning.<\/p>\n<p>The fires became the deadliest natural disaster in the state&#8217;s history, surpassing that of\u2063 a tsunami that killed 61 people on the Big Island of Hawaii \u200cin 1960, \u2063a year after Hawaii joined the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have warned that search teams with cadaver dogs could still find more dead from the fire that \u200dtorched 1,000 buildings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-africa-floods-loss-of-life-toll-rises-to-443-with-dozens-still-missing\/\" title=\"South Africa Floods Loss of life Toll Rises to 443 With Dozens Still Missing\">left thousands homeless<\/a>, likely requiring many years and billions of dollars to rebuild.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/death-toll-from-hawaii-wildfires-rises-to-67-as-new-fire-prompts-evacuations-5461015\">Death Toll From Hawaii Wildfires Rises \u2064to \u200b80 as New Fire Prompts Evacuations<\/a> \u2064 (8\/12\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/up-to-1000-people-missing-on-hawaiis-maui-island-as-fires-continue-to-blaze-5458736\">Up to 1,000 People Missing on Hawaii\u2019s Maui Island as Fires Continue to Blaze<\/a> (8\/11\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody has entered any of these structures \u200bthat have burned down and\u200b that&#8217;s where we unfortunately anticipate that \u2063the death toll \u2063will rise significantly,&#8221; <strong>U.S. Senator Brian Schatz<\/strong> of Hawaii told\u2064 MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-from-hawaii-wildfires-rises-to-80-as-new-fire-prompts-evacuations\/\" title=\"Hawaii wildfires claim 80 lives, new fire forces evacuations.\">late\u2062 evening statement<\/a>, Maui County\u2063 said that the death toll\u2063 had risen to \u200c80.<\/p>\n<p>The Lahaina fire that spread from \u2064the brush to town was still burning but 85 percent contained, the county said earlier. Two other \u200cwildfires on the island were 80 percent\u200c and 50 percent contained.<\/p>\n<p>Three \u2063days after the disaster, \u2063it remained unclear \u2063whether some residents had received any warning before the fire \u2063engulfed\u2063 their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The island has emergency sirens intended to warn of natural disasters and \u200bother threats, but they did not appear\u200d to have sounded during the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I \u2064authorized a comprehensive review this morning to make sure that we know exactly what \u2064happened \u2064and when,&#8221; <strong>Hawaii Governor \u2063Josh Green<\/strong> told CNN, referring to the warning\u200c sirens.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have\u200c not offered \u200ba\u200d detailed picture of precisely what notifications were sent out, and whether\u2063 they were \u2062done via \u2063text message, \u2064email, or phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u200d Green described multiple, simultaneous challenges, with\u200d telecommunications down and firefighters concentrating on other major wildfires when the greatest threat\u2062 to Lahaina arose.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, he said, &#8220;We\u2063 will do \u200dall\u2062 that we \u2062can to find out how to protect our people more going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maui County Fire Chief <strong>Bradford Ventura<\/strong> said at a press conference\u2063 on \u2064Thursday that the fire&#8217;s speed made it &#8220;nearly impossible&#8221; for\u2063 frontline responders \u2064to communicate with the emergency management officials who would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/questions-raised-over-warnings-in-maui-wildfires\/\" title=\"Concerns Arise Regarding Warnings in Maui Wildfires\">typically \u2062provide real-time evacuation orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were basically self-evacuating with fairly \u200clittle notice,&#8221; he said, referring to residents \u200dof \u2063the neighborhood where the fire initially struck.<\/p>\n<p>County Mayor \u200c <strong>Richard Bissen<\/strong> told NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show \u200don Friday that he did not know \u2064whether sirens went off but said\u200d the\u2063 fire \u200bmoved extraordinarily quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this was an impossible \u2064situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfire-death-toll-hits-80-as-questions-raised-over-warnings\/\" title=\"Maui wildfire claims 80 lives, concerns arise about warnings.\">aerial image shows destroyed homes<\/a> and \u200cbuildings on the waterfront\u200d burned to\u200d the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii on Aug.\u2064 10, 2023. (Patrick Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Rapid\u200b Advance<\/h2>\n<p>The\u2064 disaster began unfolding just\u2064 after midnight on Tuesday when a brush fire was reported in the town of Kula, roughly 35 miles \u200b(56 km) from Lahaina. About five \u200dhours later that morning, power\u2063 was knocked out in Lahaina, according to residents.<\/p>\n<p>In updates posted on Facebook that morning, Maui \u2063County \u200bsaid the Kula fire had \u200dconsumed hundreds of acres\u2062 of pastureland, but that a small \u2062three-acre (1.2-hectare)\u2064 brush fire that cropped up in Lahaina had been contained.<\/p>\n<p>By that afternoon, however, the situation had turned more dire. At around 3:30 p.m., according to\u200b the county&#8217;s updates, the Lahaina fire suddenly flared up. Some residents began evacuating while people, including hotel guests, on the town&#8217;s west side were instructed to shelter in\u200c place.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing hours, the county posted a series of evacuation\u2063 orders \u2064on Facebook as the fire spread through the town.<\/p>\n<p>Some witnesses said they had\u200c little advance notice, describing their terror when the blaze \u2063consumed \u200cLahaina in what seemed to be a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maui wildfires in MAALAEA, Hawaii claimed 80 lives, making it the deadliest natural disaster in the state&#8217;s history. Search teams are scouring the ruins of Lahaina to understand how the inferno rapidly engulfed the historic resort town without much warning. Hawaiian officials are investigating the cause of the devastating spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1999013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}