{"id":2003439,"date":"2023-08-17T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-emergency-chief-explains-why-no-sirens-alerted-residents-to-fast-approaching-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:07:26","slug":"maui-emergency-chief-explains-why-no-sirens-alerted-residents-to-fast-approaching-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-emergency-chief-explains-why-no-sirens-alerted-residents-to-fast-approaching-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui&#8217;s Emergency Chief clarifies absence of sirens during rapid fire threat."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmaui-emergency-chief-explains-why-no-sirens-alerted-residents-to-fast-approaching-fire%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=2003439&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--><h2>Maui&#8217;s Emergency\u200d Sirens\u200c Not Activated During Wildfires<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maui\u2019s Emergency Management Agency chief said that officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-warning-mauis-emergency-sirens-failed-to-alert-residents-to-approaching-fire-death-toll-climbs-to-80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">did not activate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the island\u2019s emergency sirens as wildfires blazed toward Lahaina because they feared the \u2062signal would cause \u2064residents to run toward the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chief Herman Andaya spoke during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">press conference<\/a> \u200dWednesday and defended his decision not to use Maui\u2019s emergency\u200d sirens, and instead send out alerts through text messages, radio, \u200dand TV. Andaya\u200d said the emergency sirens are usually \u2062used for tsunami warnings, which tell Hawaiians to seek higher ground, \u2062but that would\u2019ve been toward the fire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHad we sounded the siren that night, we\u2019re afraid that people would have \u200bgotten mauka [toward the mountains] and if that was the case, then they would have gone into \u2064the fire,\u201d the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/struan-stevenson-the-increasing-tide-iran-in-turmoil\/\" title=\"Struan Stevenson: The Increasing Tide - Iran in Turmoil\">emergency chief<\/a> said, \u200b <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/16\/maui-chief-doesnt-regret-not-activating-sirens-during-wildfire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to The New York\u2063 Post. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI should also note that there are no sirens mauka, or on the mountainside, where the fire was spreading down,\u201d Andaya \u2063added. \u201cSo \u2062even if we sounded the siren,\u200b we would not\u2064 have saved those people out there on the mountainside.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the press conference, \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-emergency-chief-explains-why-no-sirens-alerted-residents-to-fast-approaching-fire\/\" title=\"Maui's Emergency Chief clarifies absence of sirens during rapid fire threat.\">reporter cited\u200d mourning survivors<\/a> who say that their \u200bfamily members could\u2019ve survived if\u200c the emergency sirens had alerted them to the fast-moving \u2062fire. Hawaii\u200d Governor\u200d Josh Green, who was also\u2062 at the press conference, defended\u200b Andaya after the reporter\u2019s questions and said\u2063 he also would\u2019ve expected a tsunami if he heard the sirens. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said last week that \u200dher office will conduct a \u201ccomprehensive review\u201d\u2062 of the decisions \u200bmade by \u200bofficials before, during, and after the wildfires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The death toll from the wildfires that raged last \u2063week has\u2064 now hit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/17\/us\/hawaii-maui-wildfires-death-toll-thursday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">111<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200cand includes \u2062children, but only 38% of the\u200c burn area\u200c has been searched and over 1,000 people \u2063are likely still\u2063 missing, according to the governor. Video footage shows that some of the many fires that burned\u200c on the island likely started from downed\u200c power lines.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Footage captured by\u200b a security camera \u200cat the\u200b Maui Bird Conservation Center last\u200d Monday showed the\u200b moment\u200c a power line \u2063sparked a blaze in the woods.\u2064 The conservation\u200d center \u2062where the \u200dfootage was taken from is in the small rural \u200dtown of Makawao, just over\u2063 30 miles from\u200c where a massive\u2064 fire turned much of the \u200chistoric city of Lahaina\u2064 to ash. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Makawao fire\u2064 was the first of multiple\u200b fires reported on the island last week. Prior to the fires, Maui faced strong winds from a\u200b hurricane hundreds of miles offshore. While the Makawao blaze didn\u2019t reach Lahaina, it was one of \u200bthe many fires sparked\u2063 on\u2064 the island last Monday \u2062and Tuesday that eventually reached the town of 13,000.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maui&#8217;s Emergency Management Agency chief, Herman Andaya, explained during a press conference that they refrained from activating the island&#8217;s emergency sirens as wildfires approached Lahaina. Concerned that the signal might prompt residents to move towards the fire, he defended his choice and opted to send alternative alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2003440,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2003439","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}