{"id":2015356,"date":"2023-08-29T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/total-lie-maui-resident-calls-out-police-chief-for-saying-officers-knocked-on-doors\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:56:01","slug":"total-lie-maui-resident-calls-out-police-chief-for-saying-officers-knocked-on-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/total-lie-maui-resident-calls-out-police-chief-for-saying-officers-knocked-on-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Maui Resident Calls Police Chief&#8217;s Claim of Door Knocking a &#8216;Total Lie&#8221;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftotal-lie-maui-resident-calls-out-police-chief-for-saying-officers-knocked-on-doors%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=2015356&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 Local Leader of Relief Efforts Rejects\u200c Police \u2064Chief&#8217;s Claim of Evacuation Efforts During\u200c Maui Fires<\/h2>\n<p>The devastating fires that swept through \u2062Maui, particularly Lahaina,\u200d have left \u200da trail of destruction \u2062in \u200ctheir wake. With 115\u2063 people officially listed as fire\u2063 victims \u200band hundreds more missing, the aftermath of this disaster has sparked outrage among residents who claim they \u2062received little to no \u2064warning.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the presence of a warning siren system in \u200dMaui, \u200dwhich was \u200bnot activated during the\u200d fires, Police Chief\u2063 John Pelletier stated \u200cthat officers had made efforts to\u200d evacuate residents. However, this\u200d claim has been vehemently denied by Dale \u200dHermo-Fernandez,\u2063 a leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-emergency-declared-in-texas-amidst-severe-winter-weather\/\" title=\"Federal Emergency Declared In Texas Amidst Severe Winter Weather\">relief efforts<\/a>, \u200dwho called it a &#8220;total lie&#8221; and\u2064 stated that there were no loudspeakers or warnings\u2064 given.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of warning became apparent\u2062 when the first fires broke out on the morning of August 8. Although\u2062 firefighters ordered an evacuation along one road, no other\u2064 areas \u200dwere alerted. Residents were even \u2064told to shelter in place\u2062 as the wind-stoked flames approached\u200b Lahaina.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts from\u200b residents further support the claim that \u2064there were no evacuation efforts.\u200b Lisa\u200d Vorpahl recalled that\u2062 police \u200dwere present in her neighborhood for\u2063 an\u2063 early \u200cfire caused by high winds, but by mid-morning, \u200ceverything seemed fine with no signs of urgency. Ingrid Lynch \u200dalso stated that\u2062 officers visited her\u200c house in the morning\u2063 but never mentioned the \u200bfires as a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Hermo-Fernandez criticized the police\u2064 for \u200ccausing a\u2062 bottleneck by directing people down Front Street, which created gridlock \u200band prevented anyone from moving.\u200d Pelletier\u2064 defended the\u200b police \u200dactions, stating that residents were trapped \u200bbetween\u2062 <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> and \u2062the engulfed area.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the \u200bblame game, the Hawaiian Electric Company denied\u200d responsibility\u2064 for the fires, pushing back against a lawsuit filed \u200dby Maui County. The utility admitted that the morning fire\u200c appeared \u200cto be caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/237000-without-power-in-kentucky-tennessee-following-catastrophic-tornadoes\/\" title=\"237,000 Without Power in Kentucky, Tennessee Following Catastrophic Tornadoes\">fallen power lines<\/a>,\u2063 but they placed the blame on firefighters\u2064 for the fire re-igniting and \u2063becoming a \u200cdeadly blaze.<\/p>\n<p>As the investigation continues,\u2062 the lack of warning and conflicting accounts\u2062 raise serious questions about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/total-lie-maui-resident-calls-out-police-chief-for-saying-officers-knocked-on-doors\/\" title=\"'Maui Resident Calls Police Chief's Claim of Door Knocking a 'Total Lie''\">emergency \u2063management system<\/a> in \u200cMaui \u2062and \u2063the actions taken\u200d by authorities \u200cduring\u200d this\u2064 devastating event.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/total-lie-maui-resident-calls-police-chief-saying-officers-knocked-doors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Western \u2062Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maui&#8217;s police chief&#8217;s assertion that officers attempted to evacuate residents during the fatal Aug. 8 fires is disputed by a relief efforts leader. Lahaina town was ravaged by the fires, leaving 115 individuals confirmed as fire victims and numerous others unaccounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2015357,"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-2015356","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\/2015356","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}