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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/maui-official-defends-sirens-deadly-wildfires/story?id=102344576
Maui official defends not using sirens during deadly wildfires
Andaya told reporters that the sirens signal to people to seek higher ground, and there were fears that sounding the signal could have led evacuees straight into the flames.

He also said sirens wouldn't be loudly heard with the winds howling and people inside with their air conditioners on, and that there are no sirens on the mountainside, where the fire was also spreading, to alert people.

When asked by a reporter during Wednesday's briefing if he regretted not sounding the sirens, Andaya said, "I do not."
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Hawaii Gov. Josh Green also defended the choice not to use the sirens, saying had they gone off, "I would have been expecting a tsunami to come."

"That's what our mentality was," he told reporters during the briefing.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Yeap ... the forecast is slightly favorable ... it's too bad the hurricane's in the Pacific and not the Atlantic ... at least too bad for us
 

MrChips

Joined Oct 2, 2009
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Wildfire in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
My daughter lives in Kelowna. There is fire on her street. She and her family have safely evacuated.
 
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