{"id":2009360,"date":"2023-08-23T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-emergency-management-leaders-at-crisis-conference-when-wildfire-erupted\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:40:27","slug":"hawaii-fire-emergency-management-leaders-at-crisis-conference-when-wildfire-erupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-emergency-management-leaders-at-crisis-conference-when-wildfire-erupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency management leaders were attending a crisis conference in Hawaii when a wildfire suddenly broke out."},"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\">32<\/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%2Fhawaii-fire-emergency-management-leaders-at-crisis-conference-when-wildfire-erupted%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=2009360&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>The Deadliest American Wildfire Strikes Maui During Disaster Management Conference<\/h2>\n<p>The country&#8217;s top disaster management leaders and Hawaii&#8217;s senior emergency officials were gathered at a conference in Waikiki, just a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-emergency-management-leaders-at-crisis-conference-when-wildfire-erupted\/\" title=\"Emergency management leaders were attending a crisis conference in Hawaii when a wildfire suddenly broke out.\">half-hour plane ride<\/a> away from Maui, to discuss crisis management when\u200b tragedy struck. The\u200d deadliest American wildfire in a century swept through the island, leaving residents\u2062 devastated and questioning the government&#8217;s\u2063 lack of planning and response.<\/p>\n<p>The conference,\u200c an annual event organized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, brought together the &#8220;who&#8217;s who&#8221; of disaster\u2064 response from Hawaii \u200band across the Pacific. However, the residents of Maui expressed their frustration\u2063 over the absence of organized evacuations and the lack of practice\u2062 in wildfire evacuation plans and procedures. Some received emergency alerts, but others were left in confusion as the thick smoke \u200dengulfed the island, making it impossible to find a way out.<\/p>\n<p>Gina Lawless, who lost her home \u2062to the flames, voiced the sentiments of many affected residents, saying, &#8220;So many people that I know say we\u200c never knew. We never knew anything about the fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Controversy\u2062 Surrounding the Former Head of Maui Emergency Management Agency<\/h3>\n<p>Herman Andaya, the former head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, was \u2062present at the conference in Waikiki. Alongside him were six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governors-in-northeast-states-battered-by-ida-take-emergency-action\/\" title=\"Governors in Northeast states battered by Ida take emergency action\">state emergency management officials<\/a>. During a coordinating call about the multiple wildfires on Big Island and \u200cMaui, Andaya made the decision not to activate \u200cthe siren warning system. He \u200dlater stepped down from \u2063his position, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/banker-pyshnyi-set-to-become-ukraines-central-bank-head-lawmaker-says\/\" title=\"Banker Pyshnyi set to become Ukraine\u2019s central bank head, lawmaker says\">citing health reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andaya&#8217;s reasoning for \u200cnot using the sirens, claiming they were typically reserved for tsunamis, did not sit well with \u200cresidents like Alex Calma, who lost his home. Calma expressed his \u2063frustration, saying, &#8220;If I would have heard the siren that morning, I would have at least prepared, you know, \u200cpacked something in my car, called my parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Devastation and Aftermath<\/h3>\n<p>The Maui wildfires have been\u2062 deemed the deadliest in modern U.S. history, \u200bresulting in the destruction of nearly 3,000 structures and causing billions of \u200cdollars in damage. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hungary-takes-lead-as-europe-prepares-to-begin-covid-19-vaccinations\/\" title=\"Hungary takes lead as Europe prepares to begin COVID-19 vaccinations\">death toll stands<\/a> at 113, with at least \u20631,000 people still\u2063 unaccounted for. President Joe Biden visited the \u200baffected\u200d areas on Monday\u2062 to assess the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadliest American wildfire in a century struck Maui while top disaster management leaders and senior emergency officials from Hawaii were attending a crisis handling conference. This revelation adds to the ongoing saga, leaving grief-stricken residents furious at the government&#8217;s inadequate planning and response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009361,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2009360","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}