by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
The more that I dig into this story, the more it smells. A few days ago, I wrote an article about some of the unanswered questions that many of us had about the fires in Hawaii. We are now getting answers to some of those questions, and what we are finding out is deeply disturbing. It appears that so many more lives could have been saved. Authorities are telling us that more than a hundred people have been killed, but eyewitnesses on the ground are telling us that there are hundreds of dead bodies scattered all over the place. In the end, the death toll could potentially be in the thousands.
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Sadly, a lot of people were never even alerted to the fact that they were in danger, because officials purposely decided not to activate the warning sirens…
The man in charge of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday he does not regret not activating warning sirens as the fatal wildfire swept across the island.
Chief Herman Andaya said he opted to send out alerts via mobile devices, radio waves, television and the county’s opt-in resident alert system – but not via siren.
Andaya says that he made this decision because he was concerned that people might have gone the wrong direction.
Seriously?
If I hear a siren and I see a fire coming at me, I am not going to run toward the fire.
Do these people have any common sense at all?
We are also learning that when the fires came to Lahaina, many children were at home without their parents because schools had been closed due to power outages…
The death toll from the fires increased to 111 on Wednesday night but lawmaker Elle Cochran, who is in the Hawaii House of Representatives, said it could grow to hundreds as search operations continue.
Cochran fears many of the dead could be children because many schools in Lahaina, the historic town that has been ruined, were closed on the day of the fires due to power outages. A lot of children stayed at home while their parents were at work and might have been trapped and perished.
These kids had no way of being notified about the fires via television or radio because the power was out.
Of course the sirens could have made them aware that something was wrong, but the sirens never sounded.
Thankfully, many residents of Lahaina were able to save themselves by literally going into the ocean.
But now the survivors are being kept from receiving much needed assistance.
Locals are arriving with generators, water and supplies, but they are reportedly being turned away by authorities…
Why won’t they let local people help?
Meanwhile, some survivors are reporting that the water that is being given to them by the government is actually making them sick…
“We’re also hearing that the potable water being brought in by government officials is making people ill for whatever reason. They’re experiencing fevers, chills, and other ailments from drinking this potable water that’s been left. So I really urge you guys to please be careful on ingesting this water, and where you’re getting it from.”
One Facebook user reported getting “super sick” from drinking the government-provided water. “Extremely ill, 104 fevers, and still ill/careful.”
Hopefully these are just isolated incidents.
If you hear of any more cases like this, please let me know.
In the aftermath of these fires, the safety record of Hawaiian Electric is getting a lot of attention.
After the wildfires in 2019, Hawaiian Electric had promised to do what was necessary to ensure the safety of their power lines, but in the four years since then the utility has only spent a grand total of $245,000 on that initiative…
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