Some Lahaina residents return to find whats left of their homes after Maui wildfires
William Brangham:
The Hawaii attorney general has deputized a nonprofit fire safety organization to try to get to the bottom of some of those questions.
And so they will be looking at how this fire started, why it got so bad, building a whole timeline of what each of the local officials and how they responded. So, that is police, fire, EMTs, and emergency managers. We will get the sense from that investigation sometime soon.
There's also this overarching question that we heard from a lot of people, which is, why didn't they signal to evacuate? And there are emergency beacons all over this area. And they did not go after in the fire.
And I talked with the head of the county's emergency operations here, and he said those are tsunami beacons. And people are conditioned that, if those go off, that they're supposed to head uphill, which is exactly what they didn't want people doing in this fire. So, that's why they did not go after in the fire.
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