Wildfires burning across Maui prompt evacuations

[Smokin Joe]

Is it odd that the death toll has been stuck on 114 for several days?  Hawaii.gov must hate its residents to keep them in the dark like this.

I read somewhere it is actually well over 400, with some 800 still unaccounted for.

[Smokin Joe]

They aren't even trying to live up to the old Reagan quote of 'We are the Govt and we're here to help'.

Yeah, the people so generously given a $700 check couldn't even stay one night with that.

[mountaineer]

Yeah, the people so generously given a $700 check couldn't even stay one night with that.

They can't afford the $1,000 per night hotels in which a 1,000 or so FEMA bureaucrats are staying, that's for sure.

[libertybele]

They can't afford the $1,000 per night hotels in which a 1,000 or so FEMA bureaucrats are staying, that's for sure.

Yet flippin' ILLEGALS are being given hotel rooms, food and medical for free in NY and I'm sure in other cities as well.

[Hoodat]

FEMA busy at work.

[mountaineer]

FEMA busy at work

It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

[mystery-ak]

FEMA: ‘We Still Expect Several More Days’ to Finish Maui Search

Ian Hanchett 22 Aug 2023

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell stated that the search of Maui’s burn zone is 87% finished, but it will take “several more days” for the search to be completed.

Criswell said, “I had an opportunity to get a full brief from our urban search and rescue teams that are on the ground in Maui. And while we’re 87% complete, where we find ourselves today is in an area that now requires some heavy equipment to go through the last bit of structures that have been burned to go in there and make sure that we are doing a thorough job in accounting for everybody that may have been perished in this fire. And so, we still expect several more days for these teams to continue to go through this area. But, again, we’re doing it very deliberately to make sure that we cover every square inch.”

She continued, “As we continue to work with the community and with the local officials, we already have everybody out of non-congregate sheltering. They’re all in either a hotel room or maybe an Airbnb or staying with family and friends. And we have a joint housing task force here on the island that’s made up of the state, supported with our federal partners and the American Red Cross, to talk through what these long-term solutions are going to be as people start to make decisions about what their next steps will be.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/22/fema-we-still-expect-several-more-days-to-finish-maui-search/

[cato potatoe]

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but Hawaii is so insular and corrupt, this screams coverup.  It's an island.  Where did 1,100 people go?  Why were the police blocking the north exit when it was obvious the power lines were dead, and the entire line of traffic was going to incinerate?  Why was there inadequate water pressure, and no fire mitigation plan after the 2018 blaze nearly burned everything down?

[mystery-ak]

Number of missing people after Maui wildfires increase to 1,110 as FBI plans to release list of names this week

    The Hawaiian island of Maui has increased the number of missing people from the Lahaina firestorm to 1,100
    The increase from 850 comes two weeks after deadly wildfires ravaged the island
    Maui police chief John Pelletier said authorities were refining the data and were hoping to publish a verified list of missing persons 'in the next few days'

By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com

Updated: 07:25 EDT, 23 August 2023

The number of missing people in Maui has increased by 250 to 1,100 two weeks after deadly fires ravaged the island and left more than 115 people dead.

The fires were the deadliest to hit the United States in a century and search and rescue efforts have been slow.

Few of the dead have been publicly identified and crews have scoured the destruction to locate the missing. There is fear that as missing people are found, it will cause the death toll to rise further.

The tourist town of Lahaina, home to 12,000 people, was all but wiped off the map, with thousands of missing persons appearing on lists maintained by various organizations, including the police, Red Cross and shelters.

As of Tuesday, the FBI had counted 1,100 missing persons and is now working to collate and verify the data with a list to be released later this week, Special Agent Steven Merrill told reporters on Tuesday.

'We're cross-referencing all the lists so that we can determine who, in fact, truly is still unaccounted for,' Merrill said.

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[mountaineer]

FEMA will get on it right after Happy Hour at their luxury hotels.

[catfish1957]

Root Cause?:

Another of many upcoming disasters where Maintenance and upkeep of Energy grid and lost out to the Climate Change Enviro- Whacko's- Agenda.  The same will be happening in the impending EV debacle.

These deaths are on those sons of bitches. I promise.

[Bigun]

[Bigun]

[mountaineer]

According to a report by AP, the only road out of Lahaina was barricaded. Only those who disobeyed survived.

Associated Press
In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged barricades survived
By REBECCA BOONE, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, CLAUDIA LAUER and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER
Updated 1:12 AM EDT, August 23, 2023

As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, car after car of fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a desperate race for safety.

And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30.

One family swerved around the barricade and was safe in a nearby town 48 minutes later, another drove their 4-wheel-drive car down a dirt road to escape. One man took an dirt road uphill, climbing above the fire and watching as Lahaina burned. He later picked his way through the flames, smoke and rubble to pull survivors to safety. ...

The lesson, as noted by Robby Starbuck on Twitter: Disobey orders you know to be corrupt, evil or stupid.

[bigheadfred]

WTH??

[GtHawk]

WTH??

Murder

[catfish1957]

Murder

Dim sponsored and executed

[mountaineer]

Dim sponsored and executed

It's what they do.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1694146907055272377

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/1Nicdar/status/1694317494293459367

[Wingnut]

Murder

Land Grab. 

[Bigun]

Land Grab.

Both! The first (murder) to facilitate the latter (land grab).

[Wingnut]

Both! The first (murder) to facilitate the latter (land grab).

He'll put up the Josh Green Thruway on the Island to access the new beachfront condo's and unaffordable housing.  What'll that bleep think of next?

[catfish1957]

Land Grab.

Bingo.

Urban Renewal Dimmycratic style.

[mystery-ak]

 Parents find remains of teen son hugging dead dog in Maui home destroyed by wildfire
By Ronny Reyes   
August 24, 2023 1:01pm



Grieving parents found the body of their 14-year-old adopted son hugging his dead dog after the Maui wildfires — then carried him around half a mile to a police station to be confirmed among the dead.

Schoolboy Keyiro Fuentes had been home alone enjoying his last day of summer break when the deadliest US wildfires in a century started overwhelming his neighborhood in Lahaina, his mother, Luz Vargas, told CBS News.

The mom was working five miles away at the time — and unable to get home when she saw the smoke, despite begging cops to let her through their barriers.

When she and the rest of her family managed to search their home two days later, they found Keyiro’s charred body wrapped around his dead dog, the sobbing mom told CBS.

“He was not as I expected, in ashes,” she said of the body thought to have been preserved by the extreme heat.

“God maintained him like this. So, we knew it was him,” she said of her adopted son.

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