Member LoginMember Login - User registration - Setup as front page - Add to favorites - Sitemap Maui Fire Department report details how it was no match for unprecedented blazes !

Maui Fire Department report details how it was no match for unprecedented blazes

Time:2024-05-22 04:07:01 source:International Insights news portal

HONOLULU (AP) — When wildfires broke out across Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their engines. Another drove a moped into a burning neighborhood again and again, whisking people away from danger one at a time.

But despite devoting nearly all the personnel and vehicles it had to the fight on Aug. 8, 2023, the Maui Fire Department was no match for an unprecedented series of blazes including one that killed 101 people in the historic town of Lahaina, according to a newly released report.

Maui Fire Department workers “risked their lives in a valiant effort to stop the spread of the fires and save lives,” according to the report, made public Tuesday by the Western Fire Chiefs Association, and are now “grappling with questions about what they could have done differently, a reflection that will likely persist throughout the rest of their careers.”

Related information
  • Jessica Biel CHOPS her long locks into a bob after book signing in Studio City
  • Farmer who demolished a 17th century Grade II listed dovecote without permission is fined £45,000
  • Prompt admission of Palestine into UN is a move to rectify historical injustice: Chinese FM
  • Jeremiah Manele elected as Solomon Islands' new PM: Governor General
  • Germany's foreign minister visits Kyiv as Ukraine battles to hold off a Russian offensive
  • Rwanda's rebirth
  • Hamas to send delegation to Egypt for truce talks
  • China expresses grave concerns over Japan's planned export controls
Recommended content
  • Six killed in a 'foiled coup' in Congo, the army says
  • China, Vietnam hold 8th border defense friendship exchange
  • Top Pakistan medical official resigns for mishandling fast bowler's elbow injury
  • Iran reiterates commitment to IAEA cooperation
  • Russian theater director and playwright go on trial over a play authorities say justifies terrorism
  • China's services trade reports rapid growth, travel services boom in Q1