As of Monday afternoon, officials confirmed 99 people have died, up from the previous count of 96. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told CNN Monday the death toll would likely increase “very significantly” and could double over the next 10 days.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    So basically the system didn’t have backups to protect against this type of disaster and the government wasn’t expecting something like this to happen.

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      1 year ago

      Some people try to say the sirens are for tsunamis/hurricanes and using them would potentially have made people panic and run in-land.

      I also heard because of all the invasive agriculture that made the fires much worse due to old growth that used to previously feed cattle.

      But do your own research to verify those. I dont live in Hawaii