{"id":2008437,"date":"2023-08-22T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drone-gets-remotely-grounded-upon-nearing-site-of-maui-fire-origin-pilot-quickly-visited-by-government-officials\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:21:05","slug":"drone-gets-remotely-grounded-upon-nearing-site-of-maui-fire-origin-pilot-quickly-visited-by-government-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drone-gets-remotely-grounded-upon-nearing-site-of-maui-fire-origin-pilot-quickly-visited-by-government-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone halted near Maui fire source, pilot meets officials."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdrone-gets-remotely-grounded-upon-nearing-site-of-maui-fire-origin-pilot-quickly-visited-by-government-officials%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=2008437&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>A\u200c Licensed Drone Operator&#8217;s Encounter with Government Officials After Filming Maui Wildfire<\/h2>\n<p>A licensed drone operator who was capturing footage of the\u200d suspected\u200b origin of the devastating\u200b wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, recently \u200bshared his strange experience with federal agents. The wildfires \u200ctragically claimed the lives of at least 115 people.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox News \u2064host Will Cain,\u200d the drone operator, Davin Phelps, was grounded\u2064 and visited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">law enforcement officers<\/a> after attempting to film the area where the fires started. Cain\u200c took to X, formerly known \u200bas Twitter, to share\u2064 Phelps&#8217; story.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up post, Cain revealed that\u200d Phelps had provided him with a video and still \u2062images of the fire-ravaged community\u2063 of\u2064 Lahaina. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drone-gets-remotely-grounded-upon-nearing-site-of-maui-fire-origin-pilot-quickly-visited-by-government-officials\/\" title=\"Drone halted near Maui fire source, pilot meets officials.\">footage showed\u200c buildings reduced<\/a> to \u200bashes, painting a haunting picture \u200cof the destruction.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don\u2019t want to feed ridiculous conspiracies but all I can do is tell you the truth.\u2064 I just spoke to a \u2062videographer from Lahaina. Davin \u200bPhelps. He\u2019s a\u200b licensed \u2064drone pilot.\u2064 He\u2019s been flying over Lahaina for the\u200d past week. And \u200dhe has stunning and haunting images of \u200dLahaina. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zPNa6JEVt0\">pic.twitter.com\/zPNa6JEVt0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Cain (@willcain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willcain\/status\/1693814205869101479?\">August \u200d22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Phelps claimed that he was hired by an\u2064 attorney to film the suspected fire origin area, despite \u200bthe existence of \u200da no-fly\u2064 zone over Lahaina. While he managed to capture images of Lahaina Town, he faced difficulties when attempting to \u2064film the fires&#8217; \u200corigin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Davin\u200c says he was hired by \u200can attorney to\u200b fly\u2063 his drone over the\u2062 suspected area where\u2064 the fire\u2063 started. There is\u200b a \u200cno fly\u200b zone over Lahaina. But as you can \u2062see from the footage that hasn\u2019t stopped \u200chim from getting \u200dimages of Lahaina Town. But it was a different\u200d experience at the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cKJMjNVaSY\">pic.twitter.com\/cKJMjNVaSY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will\u200d Cain (@willcain)\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willcain\/status\/1693815106725900792?\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Phelps\u200c claimed that his drone was remotely grounded when he reached the suspected fire \u2064origin area. Shortly after, two unidentified government \u2063officials approached\u2064 him,\u2063 requested\u2064 his license, \u200band forced him\u2062 to leave the Lahaina Intermediate School \u2064parking lot where\u2064 he\u200c had planned to launch his drone.<\/p>\n<p>Will Cain questioned the secrecy surrounding \u200bthe area and the lack\u2064 of clarity regarding the fire&#8217;s origins and \u200bcause. He\u2064 wondered\u200b if liability and accountability were the reasons\u2063 behind the government&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Apparently licensed drone pilots fly through an app coordinated\u2063 with the \u2064FAA. \u2062That \u2064app can deny \u200dyou permission to fly \u2064and remotely ground your\u2063 drone. It\u2019s very rare. But when Phelps got to the suspected fire\u200b origin area he was denied flight and grounded.<\/p>\n<p>Then he says\u2062 two\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Cain (@willcain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willcain\/status\/1693817210223944140?\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While ABC News\u2064 reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-without-power-in-texas-energy-prices-climb\/\" title=\"Millions Without Power In Texas; Energy Prices Climb\">downed power lines<\/a> may \u2062have \u2064sparked\u2062 the fires, there are still no definitive answers. Speculation about the blazes\u2062 and their \u200corigin continues, leaving many questions unanswered. The recovery efforts are \u2062ongoing, with hundreds of people still missing.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, \u2062you can read\u200b the full article\u200b on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/drone-gets-remotely-grounded-upon-nearing-site-maui-fire-origin-pilot-quickly-visited-government-officials\/\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A licensed drone operator, claiming to film the suspected wildfire origin in Hawaii, revealed his drone was grounded and he was visited by federal agents. Fox News host Will Cain shared this bizarre account, stating that the wildfires tragically claimed the lives of 115 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":2008438,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2008437","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\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}