And lets make it even more blunt the scale of the disaster. As I was told by my dad the retired firefighter (when we were talking about that whole situation), "If they are still missing after about a week, 'missing' usually means 'so much of them burned there may not even be bones left.'"
Also, as he got particularly angry over, it is worth pointing out that the Maui fire departments were ready to roll and contain it in an early phase when it was still possible to actually fight it and not just do the wildfire equivalent of a fighting retreat. But they were denied and told to wait. Why? Because the water sources they had preplanned to use had supposedly been claimed by a local Native American tribe, and there were rituals that had to be performed before they could be allowed to use it. It took hours before these were actually done and they could start getting tankers filled and running up to the fire line, and by then it was already too late.
Malicious actions of the local government lying? Or true facts from an activist and hating whitey local tribe? Honestly, either is a likely answer.
You know, I was trying to mention it, but I forgot to.
The intentional refusal to sound the evacuation alarm for the people in the local communities, and the intentional denial of water access to fire-fighters should be taken as a capital offense. Frankly, that fucking "magic water serpent" nonsense was just an excuse for them to make sure those children burned.
And lets make it even more blunt the scale of the disaster. As I was told by my dad the retired firefighter (when we were talking about that whole situation), "If they are still missing after about a week, 'missing' usually means 'so much of them burned there may not even be bones left.'"
Also, as he got particularly angry over, it is worth pointing out that the Maui fire departments were ready to roll and contain it in an early phase when it was still possible to actually fight it and not just do the wildfire equivalent of a fighting retreat. But they were denied and told to wait. Why? Because the water sources they had preplanned to use had supposedly been claimed by a local Native American tribe, and there were rituals that had to be performed before they could be allowed to use it. It took hours before these were actually done and they could start getting tankers filled and running up to the fire line, and by then it was already too late.
Malicious actions of the local government lying? Or true facts from an activist and hating whitey local tribe? Honestly, either is a likely answer.
You know, I was trying to mention it, but I forgot to.
The intentional refusal to sound the evacuation alarm for the people in the local communities, and the intentional denial of water access to fire-fighters should be taken as a capital offense. Frankly, that fucking "magic water serpent" nonsense was just an excuse for them to make sure those children burned.
This was not a disaster, it was a DEMOCIDE.