Green Policies And Government Incompetence Led To The Tragedy Of The Maui Fire

As many as 1000 persons, many of them children, may have died as a result of the fire in Maui.

Maui's emergency operations chief, Herman Andaya, who lacked any background in disaster response, said they were used to alert residents that a tsunami was coming and to go to higher ground and he feared if he sounded the alarm people would move to higher ground where the fire was.

West Maui Land Co. sought water to fight the fire, but Manuel balked, saying the company should first seek permission from a native Hawaiian traditional farm downstream.

During the 2019 wildfire season, one of the worst Maui had ever seen, Hawaiian Electric concluded that it needed to do far more to prevent its power lines from emitting sparks.... Now, the company is facing scrutiny, litigation and a financial crisis over indications that its power lines might have played a role in igniting the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.... Hawaiian Electric has made reference in regulatory filings to the risks of power-line fires, but it waited years to take significant action, documents and interviews show.

Perhaps what is most needed right now is a moratorium on Green electricity proposals that do not prioritize fire safety.

Adding to the loss of life, Maui had no fire evacuation plan and law enforcement blocked escape routes - the road is full of charred vehicles many with bodies inside of those prevented from escape.

As Steve Milloy tweets: "People who were not harmed by acute exposures during the fire and not likely to be harmed by low level exposures in the aftermath." There's no reason to believe a government so feckless ever will do the right thing, but it should bulldoze the rubble, and find creative financing for survivors to rebuild. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/green_policies_and_government_incompetence_led_to_the_tragedy_of_the_maui_fire.html