Hawaii official refused to release water for Maui fires until it was too late

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volsrock

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With wildfires ravaging West Maui on Aug. 8, a state water official delayed the release of water that landowners wanted to help protect their property from fires. The water standoff played out over much of the day and the water didn’t come until too late.

The dispute involved the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ water resource management division and West Maui Land Co., which manages agricultural and residential subdivisions in West Maui as well as Launiupoko Irrigation Co., Launiupoko Water Co., Olowalu Water Co. and Ha’iku Town Water Association.

https://www.rawstory.com/maui-fires-water/

Democrat bureaucrat delayed the release of desperately needed water. With that water, the fire could have been fought. Without the water--we all saw what happened.
 
Officials said that civil defense sirens were not activated during the fire despite the fact that the state has the world’s largest integrated outdoor siren warning system, with over 80 sirens on Maui alone meant to be used in cases of natural disasters.



A bunch of Marxist Dem fools running Hawaii. And it got people killed!
 
volsrock said:
Officials said that civil defense sirens were not activated during the fire despite the fact that the state has the world’s largest integrated outdoor siren warning system, with over 80 sirens on Maui alone meant to be used in cases of natural disasters.



A bunch of Marxist Dem fools running Hawaii. And it got people killed!
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"Never assume malevolence where incompetence is possible" is breaking down as we see in the West wholesale governments betraying their people.

I encourage you to not assume that this disaster was born of incompetence.

Just look at COVID for Gods sake.
 
Not sure that people watering their lawns would have prevented much, it was an actual firestorm powered by wind.

It would have evaporated any water poured over a house relatively quickly.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
Not sure that people watering their lawns would have prevented much, it was an actual firestorm powered by wind.

It would have evaporated any water poured over a house relatively quickly.
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Although I doubt anyone had one, home rooftop sprinkler systems like the one shown are like 98% effective in preventing a building from burning to the ground.


What usually catches the building on fire are wind blown embers that settle on the roof and under the eaves. The sprinklers immediately extinguish these and the structure can never ignite.
 
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