by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
Note from Daisy: You’d have to live under a rock not to have heard about the horrific Maui fire that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, where many residents’ families had lived for generations. Here at The OP, our hearts weep for those who lost loved ones, homes, and this incredibly special place. If you want to help but are turned off by large organizations, a great place to donate is directly to those affected by the fire. This Instagram account can link you to real families who lost everything. You don’t have to have an Instagram account to do this. ~ Daisy
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Maui just suffered its worst disaster, with a death toll at 115 as of Thursday and nearly a thousand people still missing. While this loss of life is tragic in and of itself, as time goes by, more questions pop up. How did the fires begin? How did they get so out of control? How come damage seemed to occur almost exclusively to the natives while celebrity estates in the area were miraculously unharmed?
Why was the governor almost immediately making plans for the land? Why has media been so restricted in what they can report on?
Officials always start by blaming climate change whenever some sort of natural disaster occurs. I always start by assuming incompetence, and there was certainly plenty of that to go around in this situation.
How the Maui fire began
The historic city of Lahaina sits on the west coast of Maui. It was the capital of the original Hawaiian kingdom and was noted for its history and beauty. It was not populated by the chain stores you see on the mainland. Lahaina was largely owned and run by natives. It was a truly unique cultural artifact.
Lahaina was also surrounded by government-owned land covered with an exceptionally flammable kind of invasive grass that had been allowed to take over after years of mismanagement. The Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization warned the government repeatedly about the fire risk, but to no avail. On August 8, as winds from Hurricane Dora swept through the area, small fires began popping up in areas owned by Hawaii Electric.
Then the deputy director of Water Resource Management withheld water from firefighters.
The Hawaiian firefighters did their job to the best of their ability and were able to put out some small fires initially. But that ability was greatly hampered when the hydrants ran out of water.
The deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management waited for 5 hours before releasing additional water to the fire department, during which time Lahaina burned. The now-fired deputy director is a former Obama Foundation leader, openly concerned about using water as a tool for social justice, but not, apparently, as a tool for putting out fires.
The warning sirens weren’t used.
The deputy director was not the only person responsible for lost lives during the fire; the man in charge of the sirens dropped the ball, too. Hawaii has the largest single integrated public safety outdoor siren warning system in the world.
And yet they did not go off as Lahaina burned.
The excuse?
The Maui Emergency Management Administrator insisted that the sirens are mostly used for tsunamis and that the public was trained to run to high ground. He said he didn’t want to start an alarm and send people running to high ground into the flames.
Maui residents are pretty sure they could have figured it out.
The deputy director has lost his job, the administrator has resigned “for health reasons,” but there is no way to compensate the hundreds (probably thousands) of people who have lost loved ones and the unique community that has been burned off the map.
Community members of Lahaina have continued to care for each other.
Despite initial reports that aid wasn’t getting through, Jeremy Lee Quinn, who is on Maui, reported on the Darkhorse podcast that several community groups had set up relief stations and distributed aid on their own initiative. He said that about half were tribal-affiliated, though they were not discriminating in whom they helped.
Quinn reported, in fact, that everywhere he traveled on Maui, people immediately asked if he was hungry and wanted to make sure he had eaten recently.
These people are rightly heartbroken, traumatized, and wanting information. They have been through hell, and they deserve answers.
Social media is full of some wild claims right now.
Many residents are convinced that the Maui fire was started by a directed energy weapon (DEW). Images of houses and cars burning while trees are just fine have been circulating, and this is understandably making the locals suspicious.
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