I normally ignore news but this has been surprisingly light on details so now I'm curious.
What's actually happened that we know, and what's the accompanying suspicions? Why is it newsworthy?
EDIT
Mike Cernovich summarised it well I think.
A tragedy caused by no-one, a symptom of the general decrease in society wide competence of diversity hires and something that will only increase. Similar to the train derailment or the large explosion in Beirut a few years ago. Corruption and lack of competence on a wide scale causes these accidents.
There will be plane crashes soon.
Saw a breakdown of the interview with their governor. Apparently he admits to Failing to manage the unnatural savanna from fallow plantations. Failed to use emergency alert system because they thought it would cause people to run inland as its usually used for water events. (Very poor rationale.) Electrical grid was poorly maintained. Then he goes on to blame "climate change." @TimOnPoint on twitter posted the breakdown.
I don't know if any of these fires were intentionally started but it sounds like environmental mismanagement and stupidity definitely made the damage worse and it just so happens that is going to be very lucrative for some people.
I think excusing general incompetence will be a huge consequence of climate change.
Case in point, the all-girl firefighting team that lost control of a controlled fire. Why'd they lose control? Certainly not incompetence and mismanagement, must be climate change...
Is Hige still governor? He was only Hapa in the seat.
Hawaii is very left leaning. 85% of the population is on some kind of aid. Almost all of the money is from rich people and tourism. The other parts are military. So, it's not a shock how lefty it can get there. The native Hawaiians are told global climate change will destroy their homes so they have to conserve water... For tourists... There is a push to be more one with nature, which is taught at schools. Don't get me started on Fafafine. All of this is viewed as 'traditional'. Even though Waikiki was a giant fish hatchery. Even though they had a giant city and interconnected road and water systems, traditional is to be poor and gardening.
It's an insult to the natives and locals, but they have to take it because it's all they get.
Not sounding the alarm was a calculated choice. This isn't like the carpet catching fire in a brick apartment, where everyone outside can stand around and watch. You do not want people going in the wrong direction in a wildifre. It can sit and smolder for hours, then one gust of wind and half a mile is burned out in a couple minutes. You wouldn't have a chance to run at that point. That's why most wildfire warnings have you prepped to evacuate on a known route long before you can even see the fire.
I don't know how it works in Hawaii, but our alerts in Canada come with customizable text so they could easily have said something like "Wildfires in progress. Stay where you are but prepare to evacuate when we send further instructions".
This. Hawaii supposedly has a fairly robust alerting system capable of handling various situations.
The county website literally says the alarm is meant for wildfires though, as well as terrorist attacks, hurricanes, and the tsunami etc.
Sure, but given the other fuck ups? They don't get the benefit of the doubt here.
Ah okay that makes sense.
The water supply is actually not the greatest. So it makes sense that they had to use other means to put it out. Then you have military and government control over the ocean water.
Stupid, but a reality.
Devils advocate. I do think the warning sirens in Hawaii would make people think tsunami. That's probably a reasonable call to make in the moment.