Why Maui Chief did not activate sirens during wildfire: ‘We would not have saved those people’
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The head of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency asserted on Wednesday that he has no regrets about failing to activate warning sirens as the apocalyptic wildfires swept through the island — despite claims the system could have saved hundreds of lives.
Chief Herman Andaya defended his decision to only send out alerts via mobile devices, radio, television and the county’s opt-in resident alert system after his experience and qualifications for the lofty position were called into question during a press conference held by the governor.
Andaya said the blaring sirens are typically reserved for tsunami warnings and that Hawaiians are trained to seek higher ground when they are set off, which would have been toward the fast-moving inferno that killed 110 people.
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