▲ 117 ▼ Maui wildfire death toll hits 67 as questions raised over warnings (www.reuters.com) submitted 3 years ago by Alobarap@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 24 points 3 years ago (2 children) The island includes emergency sirens intended to warn of natural disasters and other threats, but they did not appear to have sounded during the fire. Holy shit. This is just tragic. Who knows how many lives could have been saved if they'd had a proper warning? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago From the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency website Hawaiʻi has the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world. The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more. They test them here every month too. Shameful they didn't sound them when needed the most. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Look at paradise. They had an emergency alert that went out. All it did was gridlock the entire town and people just died on the street instead of in their house. I get that we all want to be mad at something, but the emergency notification would have made a negligible difference given the speed and ferocity of this fire. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago From the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency website Hawaiʻi has the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world. The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more. They test them here every month too. Shameful they didn't sound them when needed the most. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Look at paradise. They had an emergency alert that went out. All it did was gridlock the entire town and people just died on the street instead of in their house. I get that we all want to be mad at something, but the emergency notification would have made a negligible difference given the speed and ferocity of this fire. permalink fedilink source parent