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.
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.