Maui emergency management director defends decision not to sound sirens in fire
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West Maui’s sirens are used primarily for tsunamis, MEMA Administrator Herman Andaya said as questions about warnings before the deadly wildfire are raised.
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West Maui’s sirens are used primarily for tsunamis, MEMA Administrator Herman Andaya said as questions about warnings before the deadly wildfire are raised.
Activating Hawaii's emergency sirens, primarily used to issue tsunami warnings, could have sent people on Maui from the coast to the burning forests, the head of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency said.
West Maui’s sirens are used primarily for tsunamis, MEMA Administrator Herman Andaya said as questions about warnings before the deadly wildfire are raised.
Authorities face mounting questions about whether more could have been done to warn residents as wildfires devastated western Maui earlier this month, after Hawaii’s siren warning system stayed silent while wildfires reduced the town of Lahaina to ashes.
The new alarms are being installed in Paradise as officials in Hawaii defend the decision not to sound warning sirens in a wildfire that recently swept into the town of Lahaina.
Since the wildfires that killed more than 100 people earlier this month, some survivors have said that some of the victims could have made it out had the sirens sounded.
Officials in Maui are defending their decision not to activate the county’s emergency sirens during the wildfires that tore through parts of the island last week.
The island’s Emergency Management Agency reported that the sirens are for tsunamis and are not a part of the agency’s standard wildfire response protocol. Instead, a variety of emergency notifications were used to alert residents of the danger.
HONOLULU (KHON2) — The use of emergency sirens during wildfires is mentioned on county and state emergency websites. But Maui County officials are defending their decision on not using them w…
