FEMA officials reportedly staying at 5-star Maui hotels costing taxpayers BANK
August 22, 2023 | Kevin Haggerty
Concerns over the federal government’s botched handling of the Maui wildfire stretched into resource mismanagement as hundreds of personnel were reportedly put up in luxury hotels at a grand per night.
Efforts to locate survivors and identify those who tragically lost their lives in Hawaii have continued amidst intense debate over how public officials may have failed their community. Now, with around 1,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees overseeing the disaster zone, the Daily Mail reported their post accommodations are costing taxpayers at least $1,000 per night.
“Bungling U.S. government bureaucrats dispatched to the Maui disaster zone are shacked up in $1,000-a-night luxury hotels on the Hawaiian island,” the report detailed Tuesday.
Three of the locations FEMA teams were reportedly staying at were five-star hotels that included the Grand Wailea, Four Seasons and the Fairmont Kea Lani. Additional officials were staying at the Marriott Wailea Beach.
“The beachside resorts are popular among the rich and famous and located about a 45-minute drive away from the fire-ravaged town of Lahaina,” indicated the Mail as a local government employee identified only as Kaleo said, “Shouldn’t they stay closer to the site, instead of staying across on the other side of the island?”
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“The Fairmont Kea Lani, Hawaiian for ‘heavenly white’, boasts on its website about being the ‘only all-suite’ hotel in Hawaii that once welcomed ex-Bond star Pierce Brosnan and offers ‘gourmet dining’ to uber-wealthy guests,” the outlet detailed of one of the resorts.
