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Post by maybetoday on Aug 23, 2023 2:12:41 GMT -5
Drone Gets Remotely Grounded Upon Nearing Site of Maui Fire Origin, Pilot Quickly Visited by Government Officials
By Johnathan Jones August 22, 2023 at 11:24am A licensed drone operator who said he was filming the suspected origin of wildfires that killed at least 115 people in Hawaii told a Fox News host that his drone was grounded and he was visited by federal agents. That is according to network host Will Cain, who relayed the strange story Monday evening. In a thread on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, Cain shared the story of Davin Phelps, who said he was prohibited from filming the suspected area where fires started on Maui two weeks ago. Phelps offered Cain a video of the community of Lahaina, which was devastated by fire. A clip from the drone operator shows buildings that have largely been reduced to ashes. The aerial photographer also shared with him a number of still images. Cain then told Phelps’ peculiar story. “I don’t want to feed ridiculous conspiracies but all I can do is tell you the truth,” he said in his post. “I just spoke to a videographer from Lahaina. Davin Phelps. He’s a licensed drone pilot. He’s been flying over Lahaina for the past week. And he has stunning and haunting images of Lahaina.” “Davin says he was hired by an attorney to fly his drone over the suspected area where the fire started,” Cain said in a follow-up post. “There is a no-fly zone over Lahaina. But as you can see from the footage that hasn’t stopped him from getting images of Lahaina Town. But it was a different experience at the fires origin.” He then shared how Phelps said he was visited by law enforcement officers after his drone veered into the no-fly zone before he called for more transparency from the government. “Apparently licensed drone pilots fly through an app coordinated with the FAA,” Cain posted. “That app can deny you permission to fly and remotely ground your drone. It’s very rare. But when Phelps got to the suspected fire origin area he was denied flight and grounded.” Cain continued, “Then he says two government officials (he doesn’t remember what agency) quickly visited him, asking for his license, and ran him off the Lahaina Intermediate School parking lot where he attempted to launch.” The Fox News host concluded, “So why the secrecy in this area? Liability? Accountability? Why no clarity on the origins and cause of the fire?” ABC News reported one theory is that the fires were sparked by downed power lines. However, there are no clear answers, and many are speculating about the blazes and their origin. Hundreds of people are still missing while recovery efforts continue. link
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 23, 2023 20:36:48 GMT -5
This lady has been doing some excellent investigation into the fires.
HORRIFIC! Maui Police Chief Is Covering Something Up [they were blocked from fleeing the fire]
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Post by maybetoday on Aug 24, 2023 1:35:44 GMT -5
Report: Those Who Disobeyed Road Barricade Survived Maui Fire; Those Who Didn’t Perished
By Kristinn Taylor Aug. 23, 2023 5:00 pm The Associated Press reported Wednesday that people in Maui who drove around a road barricade blocking the lone paved road from Lahaina as fires raged earlier this month survived, while those who obeyed perished in their cars or fled to the nearby ocean. The road had been reportedly closed due to downed powerlines. Screen image from drone video by Davin Phelps. A satellite photo taken the night of the fire shows nearly all of Lahaina ablaze. This image captured by the Landsat 8 satellite on Aug. 8 shows how flames engulfed large parts of Lahaina. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin) A video report posted by CBS News last week offers a rare on the ground glimpse into the grim reality on Front Street (warning, graphic): The opening paragraphs of the deeply reported AP article followed by one woman’s tale of disobeying the government to survive: As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, car after car of fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a desperate race for safety. And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30. One family swerved around the barricade and was safe in a nearby town 48 minutes later, another drove their 4-wheel-drive car down a dirt road to escape. One man took an dirt road uphill, climbing above the fire and watching as Lahaina burned. He later picked his way through the flames, smoke and rubble to pull survivors to safety. But dozens of others found themselves caught in a hellscape, their cars jammed together on a narrow road, surrounded by flames on three sides and the rocky ocean waves on the fourth. Some died in their cars, while others tried to run for safety. ,,,Kim Cuevas-Reyes narrowly escapes with her 12- and 15-year-old by ignoring instructions to turn right on Front Street toward Lahaina’s Civic Center, which earlier in the day had been turned into a shelter for refugees. Instead, she takes a left, driving in the wrong lane to pass a stack of cars heading in the other direction. “The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” said Cuevas-Reyes, 38. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.” The AP article has a very informative interactive timeline of the fire along with other survivor’s tales of not following orders to survive. The Los Angeles Times also published an interactive timeline on the fire. The AP article concludes with a survivor’s grief about not the government not issuing a warning that might have given him time to save his neighbors’ children: Baird’s neighborhood near Lahainaluna Road was filled with kids who were home alone when the flames hit, he said. “We needed like 10 more minutes, and we could have saved a lot of kids,” he said, choking back tears. “If we’d just had like a 10- or 15-minute warning.” The family ventured out to a Kahului mall recently, looking for a moment of normalcy in the aftermath of the tragedy. They ran into a playmate of their son. “The kids just don’t have a filter. So their son ran up and was just telling our son, you know, ‘This kid is dead. This kid is dead.’ And it’s like, all my son’s friends that they come to our house every day,” he said. “And their parents were at work, and they were home alone. And nobody had a warning. Nobody, nobody, nobody knew.” The government refuses to say how many children were killed in the fire. The only reports are over one hundred people killed and about 1000 missing. Over 2000 homes, apartment buildings and other structures were destroyed. Combined Joint Task Force 50 search, rescue and recovery elements conduct search operations of areas damaged by wildfires in Lahaina, Maui, Aug. 15, 2023. Members of CJTF-50 from the Hawaii Army and Air National Guard, Army active duty and Reserve are actively supporting Maui County authorities to provide immediate security, safety and well-being to those affected by the wildfires to ensure unwavering support for the community of Maui and first responders. Photo By: Army Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Foster link
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Post by OmegaMan on Aug 24, 2023 21:25:40 GMT -5
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Post by Midnight on Aug 25, 2023 2:59:04 GMT -5
Maui Survivors: Authorities Blocked Road to Stop People Escaping Lahaina as Town Burned
Frank Bergman August 24, 2023 - 8:24 pm Survivors of the devastating Maui wildfires have alleged that authorities blocked the only paved road out of Lahaina to stop people from escaping the town as it was overcome with flames. According to a report from the Associated Press, survivors are claiming that the road was barricaded to prevent people from fleeing the burning town. Maui has been destroyed by the massive blaze, with Lahaina taking the brunt of one of the deadliest wildfires in modern American history. So far, 115 people have been confirmed dead. Between 800 and 1,000 people are still unaccounted for. Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said during a news conference that residents were not prevented from fleeing Lahaina, but accounts from some of the survivors suggest they were hindered from making a quick escape because of the decision to close the Honoapiilani Highway and a bypass at the south end of town. Witnesses who survived the blaze said that traffic quickly backed up as residents attempted to flee to the south. But authorities said the road was blocked as a crew worked on downed power lines. One family ignored the barricade and swerved past the cones placed in the road, making it safely to another town nearly an hour later. Several people were killed in their cars after getting stuck in the roadblocks, however. “Nobody realized how little time we really had,” said Nate Baird, who drove his wife and two young sons out of Lahaina. “Like even us being from the heart of the fire, we did not comprehend. “Like we literally had minutes and one wrong turn. “We would all be dead right now.” A woman and her 3-year-old daughter escaped the burning town by driving her four-wheel-drive vehicle on a dirt road to a friend’s house in a neighboring town, the AP reported. A mother with her two young children said she escaped the gridlock by ignoring traffic instructions and driving on the wrong side of the road to pass a long line of cars. “The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” 38-year-old Kim Cuevas-Reyes said. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.” The road leading out of Lahaina to the south did not open until 5:20 pm, according to Maui County, nearly two hours after residents began fleeing the fire. Witnesses said that by the time the road was cleared, some had already died in the flames as others escaped the growing fire by jumping into the ocean. Maui authorities face intense scrutiny for their response to the fires and the lack of details they have provided in the aftermath of the disaster. Maui Emergency Management Agency Chief Herman Andaya chose not to use the island’s emergency sirens to alert residents to the deadly fire, saying the emergency sirens are usually used for tsunami warnings, which tell Hawaiians to seek higher ground, but that would’ve been toward the fire. Andaya then resigned one day after explaining his decision, citing “health reasons.” Another government agency, the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, was accused of delaying a request for more water to fight the fire because it first had to consult with local farmers. The agency was formerly led by a “water equity advocate,” who was reassigned to a different division following the fires. Hawaiian Electric is also under scrutiny for allegedly slow-walking modernization and repairs of its electrical grid as it devoted resources to building out the utility’s green energy network. The state attorney general said it will use a third party to investigate how state and local government agencies responded to the devastating fires. Hawaii’s Democrat Governor Josh Green, meanwhile, says he’s “already thinking of ways” his administration can buy up the properties destroyed by fires as developers scramble to acquire the sought-after land. link
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Post by maybetoday on Aug 26, 2023 3:28:00 GMT -5
Over 2,000 Children Missing From Lahaina Public Schools Two Weeks After Maui Fire: Report
By Kristinn Taylor Aug. 24, 2023 7:55 pm The Hawaii State Department of Education issued a report Thursday stating that 2,025 students are not accounted in the Lahaina public school system in the wake of the August 8 fire that ravaged the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui. The four schools, two elementary, one intermediary and one high school that comprised the Lahaina school district had a total of 3,001 students enrolled before the fire. The schools are closed due to damage from the fires, with one elementary school heavily damaged and not likely to re-open for some time. The other three suffered damage from high winds, debris and soot. The report does not mention whether–or even the likelihood–many of the missing children were killed in the fire. This image captured by the Landsat 8 satellite on Aug. 8 shows how flames engulfed large parts of Lahaina. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin) Combined Joint Task Force 50 search, rescue and recovery elements conduct search operations of areas damaged by wildfires in Lahaina, Maui, Aug. 15, 2023. Members of CJTF-50 from the Hawaii Army and Air National Guard, Army active duty and Reserve are actively supporting Maui County authorities to provide immediate security, safety and well-being to those affected by the wildfires to ensure unwavering support for the community of Maui and first responders. Photo By: Army Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Foster The report states that as of August 21, out of the 3,001 students enrolled as of August 8, 538 have “re-enrolled in other public schools”; 438 have “enrolled in the State Distance Learning Program (SDLP), English and Hawaiian language immersion”; and says of the 2,025 not accounted for: “Remainder of students who have not re-enrolled in another public school or opted for distance learning (may have moved out of state, enrolled in private schools)” The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported one private school on Maui has received about 1,000 new applicants since the fire. However the article also mentioned a private school with 200 students had been destroyed by the fire (excerpt): Meanwhile, Maui’s private schools also are in flux. Maui Preparatory Academy recently received a surge of about 1,000 applications for new openings the school made to accommodate displaced students, officials posted online this week. “We shuffled, rearranged the entire campus to welcome 110 new students (a 40% enrollment increase from last year). It is only a drop in the bucket. So many students not in classrooms today,” the school posted Monday on Instagram. Sacred Hearts School has posted on its website that its campus faced a “devastating fire that has left our campus in ruins.” A Hawaii Association of Independent Schools report shows the school enrolled about 200 students. Government officials have not been forthcoming on the number of children killed in the fire. Two weeks out they still only report 115 official deaths and anywhere from 850 to 1,100 people of all ages missing. Officials have not released a list of those presumed missing. School children in Lahaina were kept home that day due to high winds from an offshore hurricane, with many home alone because their parents were at work. Hot Summer Deals On The Gateway Pundit Discounts Page At MyPillow — Use Promo Code TGP For Up To 80% Off! The Associated Press reported Wednesday on a father who was able to rescue his children from the fire but is anguished because he wasn’t able to save his neighbors’ children (excerpt): Many of the survivors are angry, and haunted by the thought that a just few minutes of notice could have saved many lives. Baird’s neighborhood near Lahainaluna Road was filled with kids who were home alone when the flames hit, he said. “We needed like 10 more minutes, and we could have saved a lot of kids,” he said, choking back tears. “If we’d just had like a 10- or 15-minute warning.” The family ventured out to a Kahului mall recently, looking for a moment of normalcy in the aftermath of the tragedy. They ran into a playmate of their son. “The kids just don’t have a filter. So their son ran up and was just telling our son, you know, ‘This kid is dead. This kid is dead.’ And it’s like, all my son’s friends that they come to our house every day,” he said. “And their parents were at work, and they were home alone. And nobody had a warning. Nobody, nobody, nobody knew.” link
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 26, 2023 20:01:59 GMT -5
ANOTHER fire on Maui!
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Post by J.J.Gibbs on Aug 27, 2023 22:25:07 GMT -5
This guy has been doing some good updates on the situation in Maui. So much deception and lies in the MSM! Apparently many have been found dead floating in the ocean; nothing blue was burned. And where are all the missing children? Why aren't their parents - who were at work where the power wasn't affected - looking for them? DISGUSTING! Mark Zuckerberg STEALS Maui from Native Hawaiians: LAND GRAB! EVICTED?! The Maui Massacre Corruption Just Got Even WORSE! INSULTED! Biden Said THIS at Maui Massacre Site?! BIDEN LIED! It’s WORSE Than Pearl Harbor | The Maui Massacre EXPOSED! They’re All In On it | Maui Massacre BURNED ALIVE! Elon Musk Demands Prosecution | Maui Massacre WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?! Lahaina Fire Lawsuits Begin | Maui Massacre Subscribe to his channel for more updates. He's a very nice man, but...I think he needs prayer!
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 28, 2023 3:24:53 GMT -5
Unbelievable 4K Footage See ALL of Lahaina Town Fire Devastation - Almost Every Street - August 10th
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Post by OmegaMan on Aug 28, 2023 22:21:56 GMT -5
CLAIM: Charred remains of “entire families” found huddled inside Maui homes as local morgues run out of body bags
08/28/2023 // Ethan Huff // 2.2K Views Tags: body bags, death, disaster, fires, genocide, Hawaii, Lahaina, Maui, morgues, tragedy, Unexplained, wildfires As fake president Joe Biden continues to say absolutely nothing about the Maui fires, rescue crews are reporting that they are finding the charred remains of "entire families" inside burnt-out homes while local morgues struggle to maintain enough body bags to handle them all. As Biden issued a statement of "no comment" before jaunting from one beach vacation in Delaware to his next vacation in Lake Tahoe, locals in and around Lahaina are saying that the true death toll is much, much higher than Maui authorities are reporting. The actual death toll, according to some locals, is more like 480, with many of the bodies still not recovered or identified. "The figure is quadruple that of the official number of 111 – and some of the relatives of the victims have been left to uncover the remains of their loved ones themselves due to the glacial progress of the search and recovery operation," one report claims. The shocking video footage below (at link) shows authorities in Maui loading bodies onto a refrigerated truck as an extension of local morgues which are now said to be too full to hold any more bodies: (Related: Were the Maui fires really natural, or were they an act of climate terrorism by radical leftists pushing a deranged global warming narrative?) If Maui was called Ukraine, Biden would be sending BILLIONS there for "support" The fact that Biden, also known as the "big guy" on Hunter's laptop, is saying nothing about Maui and showing no concern at all for the victims there is hardly a surprise, seeing as how his primary focus is on padding the pockets of Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine. If Maui were to be renamed "Ukraine," Biden would surely start pumping billions of taxpayer dollars into its coffers without. He does this without end for Zelensky while actual Americans struggle to survive amid skyrocketing inflation and a collapsing economy. "One-hundred percent not enough is being done, so people are doing it themselves," said Maui local Allisen Medina. "The government, relief organizations – they're not doing anything. We have the right to know what's going on. FEMA came here to help with the recovery [process], but we don't see them. The Red Cross arrived four days late and they're not doing anything. They're supposed to help and not just stand around." "We're only 100 miles from Oahu which has several military bases. Why is the response so lacking? Why are they doing so little? Why is nothing else being done?" Medina's claims were corroborated by Southwest Airlines stewardess Sarah Trost, who says she spoke with a morgue worker in the Maui area who confirmed to her that the true death count so far is at least 480 people. Authorities, Trost says, have only searched about 13 percent of the burnt-out area, not 78 percent like they recently falsely claimed. "He found so many children, children and moms holding each other," Trost said in a video she posted to TikTok. "Infants, toddlers, the unimaginable. Husbands and wives, whole entire [families] in a room just huddling together, burning to death." There are also about 1,400 people still missing, whom some believe are dead and gone in the ashes – meaning they are unidentifiable. "It's all bones," Trost said. "So, he's grabbing the bones with the ash shoveling them into body bags. They have no more room on the island in the morgue so they're shipping in containers to hold those body bags." In the comments, someone wrote that he suspects the true number of dead is more like 4,800, seeing as how the population of Lahaina before the fires was around 12,216 (as of 2020). There does not appear to be anything natural about the Maui fires. Learn more at FalseFlag.news. link
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Post by OmegaMan on Aug 28, 2023 22:25:36 GMT -5
Over 2,400 kids are missing in Maui, but aren’t included in the government’s death toll
08/27/2023 // Lance D Johnson // 14.6K Views Tags: arson, big government, children, conspiracy, Cover-Up, coverup, deaths, deception, direct energy weapon, disaster, FEMA, Government Failure, Hawaii, Homeland Security, Lahaina, land confiscation, MediaFactWatch, missing children, terrorism, tragedy, Unexplained, wildfires When massive fires began to ravage the island of Maui, emergency management teams were nowhere to be found. As the fires raged, at least 74 emergency management officials were attending an annual FEMA disaster meeting just a quick hour and half flight away, on the island of Oahu. Top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security were preoccupied at the Pacific Partnership Meeting, as one of the most devastating wildfires in U.S. history burned its way into the town of Lahaina. Why are federal and state officials not talking about the 2,400 missing children in Lahaina? The firestorm, fueled by tropical storm force winds, was not taken seriously; no emergency alarms were sounded, evacuation routes were blocked. Local Maui residents said that a police blockade actually prevented the people from leaving Front Street in Lahaina, as the wildfire came in. On that horrid day, vehicles burned in the streets, boats burned 50 yards out to sea, and people barely survived choking and burning in the Pacific Ocean’s treacherous waters. In the aftermath, one could see that droves of residents were backed up on roads that must have been blocked by billows of smoke and other barricades of fire and devastation. The fires took out more than 2,200 homes and displaced an estimated 4,500 people. As of August 21, 2023, Maui County and the Maui Police Department have reported a death toll of 115 people. “The death toll from the wildfires has risen to 115 people,” Maui authorities reported on Monday the 21st. But these official reports are a sham. The FBI, the Red Cross and the Maui police have a missing persons list that contains approximately 1,000 people who are still unaccounted for. Even this official missing person’s list falls short of the harsh reality that over 2,400 kids are missing in Maui. The mayor of Maui, Richard Bissen, has yet to report on this grave reality. Multiple hundreds of kids were left to burn in Lahaina, and the corporate press has yet to address this chilling reality and the failure of the government’s emergency response. Hawaii officials have been encouraging families from Lahaina to enroll their children in schools outside of the burn zone. The four schools in Lahaina served more than 3,000 students. Shocking, only about 400 students from the burn area have reportedly enrolled in other public schools. Only around 200 more have signed up for distance learning. At least 2,400 students are left unaccounted for in the public school system. These figures do not even account for children who are home-schooled in Lahaina, many of which could be missing as well. It’s not clear how many children burned to ash in those horrid fires. Some parents may be waiting to decide where they will send their kids to school, but it’s hard to tell how many families burned up together in the historic fires. In these cases, there could be no family members left to enroll or account for the missing schoolchildren. Why are officials hiding the true death toll in Lahaina? Why are Hawaii officials claiming that an abstract concept “climate change” is to blame for the fires, without any investigation into real-life causes for the fires? Just looking at the devastation, the fires appear to have burned some structures from the inside out, while leaving nearby trees largely intact. Why is there no investigation into potential arson or terrorist attacks on the town of Lahaina? What are the real motivations behind the state’s desire to confiscate the land there? Why aren’t the missing children being discussed on every news network, and why isn’t the government discussing the administrative failures and questioning why and how this happened? link
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 29, 2023 2:27:46 GMT -5
MORE EVIDENCE - 2 Miles from Lahaina Fire A Melted Car Surrounded by Gravel! D.E.W. or What?
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 29, 2023 2:30:18 GMT -5
Thanks JJ - this guy really does the best updates.
INVESTIGATED! Biden PROBED for Maui Massacre Failure!
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Post by maybetoday on Aug 29, 2023 22:44:46 GMT -5
WATCH: 'The Biden Curtain' goes up to block view of Hawaii Ground Zero
'No one can get in there, no one can take any pictures' By Joe Kovacs Published August 28, 2023 at 3:13pm Black fencing erected in Lahaina, Maui, in August 2023 to block the public's view of ground zero of the Hawaiian fires (Video screenshot) It's already being called "The Biden Curtain," as new videos from Lahaina, Maui, reveal miles of black curtains erected to prevent people from seeing what's happening at the origin site of this month's catastrophic wildfires in Hawaii. Geoff Cygnus, a citizen journalist on TikTok, posted the video, with a caption reading: "Miles and miles of black fencing being put up in Lahaina. Ground Zero is now behind the Biden curtain." "There seems to be a huge emphasis on ensuring that the media and anyone else can't see what's going on," Cygnus reported. "There are miles and miles of this black fence going up that was not here before that is obscuring ground zero and making sure no one can see what's going on inside of there from the road, no one can get in there, no one can take any pictures." "I was almost immediately, after these 20 seconds, National Guard came and chased me off, yelled at me, told me to get back in my car and keep moving. So you cannot pull over. You can't even stop you car anywhere near any of this anymore." In addition to the National Guard, Cygnus says there are "regular police, and what I have dubbed 'special police,' which are these police cars that are foreign made. The people that are driving them are not – they don't look like any police I've ever seen in the United States. So kind of a bizarre situation, but they have a huge presence standing guard ensuring that nothing can be documented. The journalist voiced a palpable fear for his personal well-being just by documenting what's happening in the aftermath of the blaze. "The footage that I have has been uploaded to the mainland to multiple people that have the credentials to my social media," he explains, "so if anything does happen to me, it's not going to prevent the story getting out." Black fencing erected in Lahaina, Maui, in August 2023 to block the public's view of ground zero of the Hawaiian fires (Video screenshot) Meanwhile, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, reportedly says it was asked by Maui officials to stop posting "new imagery of damage/disaster/debris starting now." A letter posted on X by Anthony Cabassa shows an Aug. 19 correspondence from FEMA Office of External Affairs Director Justin Angel Knighten, who states: "They are asking for a full stop in disaster imagery going forward. At this time, we have not been asked to take any photos or videos down. Our team on the ground is coordinating with the County for further guidance to ensure we remain fully aligned. Cultural sensitivity is of the utmost importance in all our response and recovery activities to this disaster." "Why are Maui officials so desperate for a media blackout?" notes a commentary on Women System. "Is 'cultural sensitivity' their main concern, or is something more dubious driving their desperation to stop the world from seeing what is really happening there?" Scorched cars in Lahaina, Hawaii, in the aftermath of devastating wildfires in August 2023. (Video screenshot) Meanwhile, as WND reported, Hollywood actor James Woods is joining the chorus of Americans outraged about this month's wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui. "Someday after all the land is appropriated, Hollywood will make a movie about this," Woods said Sunday, as he shared a video featuring survivor accounts in the wake of the blazing catastrophe. "Rich people in tuxedoes will celebrate their compassion and give each other little gold statues. And then everything will be forgotten," Woods predicted. John Podesta, the White House clean energy czar, pushed for cuts in carbon emissions to battle future natural disasters such as the Maui fires which he claimed were "fueled by climate change." But Fox News reported Sunday that Maui officials "attributed the cause of catastrophic wildfires to alleged failures from the state's main power utility company and downed power lines this week after Democrats blamed the disaster on global warming." This determination has sparked a lawsuit against the Hawaii Electric Company for neglecting to properly power down live electrical equipment amid a red flag windstorm earlier this month. "The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants acted negligently by failing to power down their electrical equipment despite a National Weather Service Red Flag Warning on August 7th," Maui County announced. "The lawsuit further alleges HECO's energized and downed power lines ignited dry fuel such as grass and brush, causing the fires," its statement added. "The lawsuit also alleges failure to maintain the system and power grid, which caused the systemic failures starting three different fires on August 8th." link
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 30, 2023 3:25:01 GMT -5
THEY LIED! This Did NOT Cause The Maui Massacre Fires
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Post by Midnight on Aug 30, 2023 4:06:42 GMT -5
Exclusive: Maui Resident Says Police Chief’s Claim that Officers Knocked on Doors Is a ‘Total Lie’
KRISTINA WONG 28 Aug 2023 A local resident who has led grassroots relief efforts in Maui told Breitbart News in a recent exclusive interview the Maui police chief’s claim that officers tried to evacuate people is a “total lie.” “Lie. Total lie. Total lie. That is false. No loudspeaker, nothing,” said Dale Hermo-Fernandez in a phone interview from Maui on Friday evening. He said there was “no warning, no sirens. Nobody knew.” During a news conference last Tuesday, Maui Police Chief John Pelletier claimed that police officers drove up and down streets, knocking on doors and using loudspeakers to tell people to leave, according to the Associated Press. He did not say exactly where and when officers did that. According to a report by Honolulu Civil Beat, Maui Fire Chief Bradford Ventura said firefighters called for the evacuation of the area around Lahainaluna Road around 3:00 p.m., but no other areas were ordered to evacuate. In fact, as late as 4:45 p.m. local time, Maui County officials encouraged residents to “shelter in place unless evacuations are ordered,” according to an archive of the county’s website. According to Civil Beat, people were jumping into the ocean “less an hour later, around 5:30 p.m.” Honolulu Emergency Management Director Hiro Toiya told the outlet that when communication systems are down, emergency managers “have the option to deploy first responders and volunteers to drive through the area in vehicles equipped with lights, sirens and a PA system.” “We can send personnel out into the field to do those announcements, going neighborhood by neighborhood or going door to door as necessary,” he said. However, then-Maui Emergency Management Agency Chief Herman Andaya admitted that his agency was not even aware the power was out. One resident did say police were out trying to evacuate people that morning, after the fire first started in Lahaina around 6:30 a.m. Burnt areas in Lahaina on Maui, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023 (Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP) According to the Washington Post, bank teller Lisa Vorpahl said not long after that fire started that morning, police were “circulating in her neighborhood, calling out on megaphones for people to evacuate.” However, Maui County posted an update on Facebook at 9:55 a.m. stating that the fire was “100% contained,” and there is no evidence yet that police tried to evacuate people when fire flared up again later that afternoon in Lahaina. Another resident, Ingrid Lynch, told the Civil Beat that officers were at her house in the morning to take a report about a fallen tree, but did not mention that a fire had already ignited. “At that point, they never said anything to us about evacuating,” she said. Hermo-Fernandez said police had actually inadvertently worsened the situation during the fires by creating traffic bottlenecks. “In fact, the police made a mistake. They forced people down the Front Street thinking it was safe, which at the time I could see what — you know, if I’m a police officer in the middle of that, I can see where he was coming from, because Hanoapiilani Highway had had the [power] lines down on the ground, so nobody could really pass it. So I could see why he would tell him go around on Front Street. But that also created a gridlock in Front Street. And when the gridlock locked up, nobody, nobody could move,” he said. Maui Police are now facing mounting criticism over setting up barricades that may have prevented residents from escaping. According to the Associated Press, “car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30.” Workers wearing “Morgue Operations” shirts move a body bag into a refrigerated storage container adjacent to the Maui Police Forensic Facility where human remains are stored in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires in Wailuku, Hawaii on August 17, 2023. (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images) Pelletier told Hawaii News Now (HNN) that barricades were set up due to “downed power lines, which would kill you if you drove over them — or a fire that’s engulfed the area.” He claims that police never impeded people from “exiting the area,” but declined to offer specifics. Myrna and Abraham Ah Hee stand in front of an evacuation center at the War Memorial Gymnasium, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Wailuku, Hawaii. The Ah Hees were there because they were looking for Abraham’s brother. Their own home in Lahaina was spared, but the homes of many of their relatives were destroyed by wildfires. They haven’t been able to get in touch with Abraham’s brother. (Rick Bowmer/AP) link
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 31, 2023 2:25:05 GMT -5
Who Will Save the Cats STILL Trapped in the Lahaina Fire Burn Zone?
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Aug 31, 2023 2:27:29 GMT -5
SNUBBED! “Nothing More Than $700 ” | Maui Fire Massacre
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Post by Honoria on Aug 31, 2023 16:02:13 GMT -5
Maui Resident: More Than 450 Bodies Allegedly Recovered from Wildfire and ‘Lot of Kids’ Still Missing
KRISTINA WONG 31 Aug 2023 Maui search crews have allegedly found over 450 bodies, according to a local resident who is leading a grassroots relief effort to aid victims of the fire that decimated the town of Lahaina earlier this month. “I guarantee you right now, from what has been seen, the number is over 450 and it’s gonna get — it’s gonna get closer to 1,000,” Maui resident Dale Hermo-Fernandez, who has close contacts inside local recovery efforts, said in a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News. “They’re not giving the number until they toe-tag them and identify them, which is understandable,” he said. “It’s guaranteed in the four hundreds. More than likely you’re going to get to 850 or 900 — with 40 percent being kids,” he said. He said he did not want to discuss the children too much, out of respect for parents holding out hope. “What I’m telling you right now is there’s a lot of kids. There’s a lot. There’s so much. And that’s the thing right now. The real disaster hasn’t even happened to the fullest,” Hermo-Fernandez said. “Right now, we’re all in this void of hope. We’re in this void of hope. We have parents hoping that the kids are on the other side [of the island], they’re hoping that the kids would run through a safe person’s home and we just can’t just get a hold of them. So there’s a little bit of hope,” he added. Benny Caluya holds a stack of flyers of his 98-year-old aunt, Louise Abihai, who has been missing since the Maui wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, on August 20, 2023. (Mengshin Lin for The Washington Post via Getty Images) “But the truth of the matter is, I’ve been in [Lahaina]. There is no hope. There’s — I’ve seen kids in there. I’ve seen — you know, it’s, there is no hope.” Hermo-Fernandez said that on the day of the fires, before they had spread in Lahaina, school had been called off due to power outages. His cousin had brought his kids with him on his way to work on the other side of the island that morning, dropping them off at his father’s house. “But a lot of people didn’t do that. A lot of kids were home because the school got called out because there was no electricity. And when there’s no electricity, they can’t feed the kids lunch and breakfast. So they keep them home, which makes sense. But they got called out and parents went to work and the kids were at home by themselves,” he said. He described what he has seen in Lahaina. “Whole families are lost — huddled in cars hugging each other. This is firsthand. Like a husband and wife hugging each other on Front Street in the car. It’s bad. It’s so bad. I don’t want to get too far into the kids and all that, out of respect for the families,” he said. “When it starts coming out, it’s going to be heartbreaking. It’s going to be a disaster once these parents find out there’s no hope. That’s when the crying really sets in and starts,” he said. Breitbart News reached out to Maui Police Department to confirm the number of bodies found, but did not immediately receive a response. So far, Maui authorities have only announced 115 dead, with 100 percent of the area searched. Maui County last Thursday released the names of 388 individuals who are unaccounted for, but that is only those whose first and last names were known, and with a verified contact reporting them unaccounted for. Officials say that number will fluctuate. Others have been reported unaccounted for whose names have not yet been verified. “The 388 names are a subset of a larger list,” Steven Merrill, a special agent from the FBI’s Honolulu field office, said at a press conference. “I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that we still have hundreds of other names where we still need more information.” Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said that some of the dead may never be found or identified. “This is the honest answer. We are doing everything we can to recover as much as we can of a human being as possible,” he said, comparing it to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, where more than 1,100 of the dead remain identified. Hermo-Fernandez believes that if there had been more search and recovery personnel on the ground sooner, more lives could have been saved. “The [Maui Police Department] did it by himself for the first few days. Three, four or five days, then I think I saw the FBI come in on the fifth day, when they could have sent the best guys — they should have been on the plane the day after the fire,” he said. He said some people were still hunkered down injured in Lahaina in homes that did not burn. “Four days later, they found a lady still alive — a 70-year-old lady still alive,” he said. He said those who perished were the children and the elderly. “People like me that could run, made it. People like my age — like, the middle age — they could make a move,” he said. One of the younger survivors his group helped tried to carry his aunt, who had recently had a stroke, to safety. “He had her on his back, running out. And he had to put her down. He was on fire himself and he held her until his clothes caught on fire. And she died.” link
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Post by J.J.Gibbs on Sept 1, 2023 1:31:45 GMT -5
Maui Resident: More Than 450 Bodies Allegedly Recovered from Wildfire and ‘Lot of Kids’ Still Missing
KRISTINA WONG 31 Aug 2023 Maui search crews have allegedly found over 450 bodies, according to a local resident who is leading a grassroots relief effort to aid victims of the fire that decimated the town of Lahaina earlier this month. “I guarantee you right now, from what has been seen, the number is over 450 and it’s gonna get — it’s gonna get closer to 1,000,” Maui resident Dale Hermo-Fernandez, who has close contacts inside local recovery efforts, said in a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News. “They’re not giving the number until they toe-tag them and identify them, which is understandable,” he said. “It’s guaranteed in the four hundreds. More than likely you’re going to get to 850 or 900 — with 40 percent being kids,” he said. He said he did not want to discuss the children too much, out of respect for parents holding out hope. “What I’m telling you right now is there’s a lot of kids. There’s a lot. There’s so much. And that’s the thing right now. The real disaster hasn’t even happened to the fullest,” Hermo-Fernandez said. “Right now, we’re all in this void of hope. We’re in this void of hope. We have parents hoping that the kids are on the other side [of the island], they’re hoping that the kids would run through a safe person’s home and we just can’t just get a hold of them. So there’s a little bit of hope,” he added. Benny Caluya holds a stack of flyers of his 98-year-old aunt, Louise Abihai, who has been missing since the Maui wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, on August 20, 2023. (Mengshin Lin for The Washington Post via Getty Images) “But the truth of the matter is, I’ve been in [Lahaina]. There is no hope. There’s — I’ve seen kids in there. I’ve seen — you know, it’s, there is no hope.” Hermo-Fernandez said that on the day of the fires, before they had spread in Lahaina, school had been called off due to power outages. His cousin had brought his kids with him on his way to work on the other side of the island that morning, dropping them off at his father’s house. “But a lot of people didn’t do that. A lot of kids were home because the school got called out because there was no electricity. And when there’s no electricity, they can’t feed the kids lunch and breakfast. So they keep them home, which makes sense. But they got called out and parents went to work and the kids were at home by themselves,” he said. He described what he has seen in Lahaina. “Whole families are lost — huddled in cars hugging each other. This is firsthand. Like a husband and wife hugging each other on Front Street in the car. It’s bad. It’s so bad. I don’t want to get too far into the kids and all that, out of respect for the families,” he said. A cat walks by a burned car in a neighborhood that was destroyed by a wildfire on August 18, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) “When it starts coming out, it’s going to be heartbreaking. It’s going to be a disaster once these parents find out there’s no hope. That’s when the crying really sets in and starts,” he said. Breitbart News reached out to Maui Police Department to confirm the number of bodies found, but did not immediately receive a response. So far, Maui authorities have only announced 115 dead, with 100 percent of the area searched. Maui County last Thursday released the names of 388 individuals who are unaccounted for, but that is only those whose first and last names were known, and with a verified contact reporting them unaccounted for. Officials say that number will fluctuate. Others have been reported unaccounted for whose names have not yet been verified. “The 388 names are a subset of a larger list,” Steven Merrill, a special agent from the FBI’s Honolulu field office, said at a press conference. “I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that we still have hundreds of other names where we still need more information.” Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said that some of the dead may never be found or identified. “This is the honest answer. We are doing everything we can to recover as much as we can of a human being as possible,” he said, comparing it to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, where more than 1,100 of the dead remain identified. Hermo-Fernandez believes that if there had been more search and recovery personnel on the ground sooner, more lives could have been saved. “The [Maui Police Department] did it by himself for the first few days. Three, four or five days, then I think I saw the FBI come in on the fifth day, when they could have sent the best guys — they should have been on the plane the day after the fire,” he said. He said some people were still hunkered down injured in Lahaina in homes that did not burn. “Four days later, they found a lady still alive — a 70-year-old lady still alive,” he said. He said those who perished were the children and the elderly. “People like me that could run, made it. People like my age — like, the middle age — they could make a move,” he said. One of the younger survivors his group helped tried to carry his aunt, who had recently had a stroke, to safety. “He had her on his back, running out. And he had to put her down. He was on fire himself and he held her until his clothes caught on fire. And she died.” link
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Sept 1, 2023 2:49:06 GMT -5
DEW you believe it? Oprah’s $1,200 Stimulus | Maui Fire Massacre
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Sept 2, 2023 2:44:34 GMT -5
IT JUST GOT WORSE. “Napalm-like” Injuries | The Maui Massacre
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Post by J.J.Gibbs on Sept 3, 2023 21:24:16 GMT -5
Hawaii Gov.: House Probe into Federal Maui Response Is ‘Political’ Effort to Hurt Biden, ‘We Did a Very Good Job’
IAN HANCHETT 31 Aug 2023 On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) criticized plans by the House Oversight Committee to investigate the federal response to the fires in Maui as an attempt to “take a pound of flesh.” And that “I actually know that we did a very good job for what we could do, the president responded in six hours and approved our declaration, our emergency declaration and we got people into housing faster than probably almost anyone ever has. So, we’re grateful for that.” Host Chris Cuomo asked, “[T]he Republicans are saying that the response there stunk on your level, the local level, and the federal level and they want an investigation, which is certainly going to lock up any funding for you. So, how bad are you worried — how much are you worried about this?” Green responded, “I’m somewhat worried. Look, I actually know that we did a very good job for what we could do, the president responded in six hours and approved our declaration, our emergency declaration and we got people into housing faster than probably almost anyone ever has. So, we’re grateful for that. And, of course, there has to be total accountability for whatever went wrong. That, of course, we’re going to do also. As to political investigations, I think that that’s all — unfortunately, that’s, I think, a byproduct of the past. The Republicans are pissed off that the Democrats jacked Trump and they’re going to try to take a pound of flesh. And that’s what goes on in this day and age.” link
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Post by schwartzie on Sept 4, 2023 20:32:09 GMT -5
WSJ: Blaming Maui Wildfires on ‘Climate Change’ Is a ‘Fraud on the Public’
Frank Bergman September 4, 2023 - 12:48 pm In a damning op-ed, a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has blasted claims from Democrats and their allies in the corporate media that “climate change” is to blame for the recent wildfires in Hawaii and elsewhere. According to Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., this narrative is a “fraud on the public.” As Slay News has reported, Democrat officials in Hawaii have been quick to blame the so-called “climate crisis” for the fires that devastated Maui. However, investigators have concluded that the fires were caused by arson and spread quickly because of poor forestry management. Conveniently, the same Hawaii Democrat officials blaming “global warming” for the fires are responsible for the real causes. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s administration and Democrats in Washington D.C. have also been using the disaster to promote their green agenda. Yet despite Biden’s unscientific claims that the “climate crisis” causes hot weather during the summer months, the president conveniently failed to mention the subject during his recent trip to Hawaii. He cracked jokes about his Corvette while telling a story about a kitchen fire in his house, but he never mentioned the climate during his visit. The lack of mention was likely due to the people on the ground in Hawaii knowing that wildfires had nothing to do with the alleged “climate emergency.” According to Jenkins, this was due to Biden’s handlers knowing that Hawaiians would view such claims as “criminal and cowardly in the face of the true causes of the Maui disaster.” “High winds are a common occurrence,” Jenkins writes. “Dry conditions are a common occurrence. “Invasive grasses taking over abandoned pineapple and sugar plantations were a known menace, complicated by unhelpful land-use policy. “Emergency sirens weren’t sounded. “Water wasn’t available due to political squabbles over allocation rights. “The local utility was instructed by Hawaii’s Legislature to meet ambitious renewables targets rather than spend on reducing fire risk. “Firefighters reportedly left the scene early believing they had extinguished the initial blaze.” Maui itself is an island surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, with vagaries more immediate and potent than any caused by a 0.3% fluctuation in the planet’s long-term energy balance due to atmospheric CO2. Blue-green algae gave us oxygen to breathe and yet we don’t blame blue-green algae for everything oxygen-breathing organisms do. Likewise, nothing very useful comes from trying to explain every weather-related misfortune in terms of human-caused carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Weather is a product of climate, we should specify; our climate is currently influenced by atmospheric CO2 of 419 parts per million. “But hurricanes, fires, floods, and heat waves also occurred when the concentration was 280 parts per million and tended to claim more lives than they do now,” Jenkins asserts. “Whatever man’s role in climate change, whatever the merits of regulating CO2, making climate policy the answer to weather risks is a distraction and fraud on the public.” Meanwhile, activists, lobbyists, and leftists are banking on a certain type of voter who is willing to believe anything. Even Biden’s pork-filled Inflation Reduction Act had nothing to do with the economy and served only to pump taxpayer money into the globalist green agenda. As Slay News reported, a world-renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist recently became one of the highest-profile experts to speak out against the “climate crisis” narrative. Dr. John Clauser warned the public that the “climate change” narrative relies on the “application of scientific disinformation for opportunistic purposes.” During his recent address at the Korea Quantum Conference, Clauser declared: “I believe that climate change is not a crisis.” “The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people,” he said in the announcement of his joining the group’s board. “Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. “In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills,” he said. WATCH: Shortly after he issued the warning, Clauser was disinvited from giving a speech to the International Monetary Fund. But Clauser is not alone, however. Clauser has joined over 1600 scientists from around the world in signing a declaration stating that claims of a “climate emergency” threatening the Earth are a hoax. The massive group of scientists, which includes two Nobel Prize winners, signed the World Climate Declaration (WCD). The WCD dismisses the existence of a “climate crisis” and insists that carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth. The declaration directly conflicts with the popular alarmist narrative that claims humans are destroying the planet with their carbon output. As Slay News has reported, the anti-carbon agenda is part of the “Net Zero” goals pushed by unelected globalist organizations. Claims of a “climate crisis” are being promoted around the globe by governments and their media accomplice in an effort to comply with the green agenda goals of the World Economic Forum (WEF), United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other unelected globalist organizations. Meeting these goals typically involved plans to slash the quality of life for most of the general public while ramping up taxes to “save the planet.” Meanwhile, the handful of powerful elites promoting the green agenda will continue to fly around in private jets and eat meat because they are “part of the solution.” In the case of Hawaii, pushing the “climate crisis” narrative appears to be an effective method of deflecting blame for the disaster. link
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Post by ExquisiteGerbil on Sept 7, 2023 2:48:35 GMT -5
This is an excellent update. I've done a little research, and there are 300' deep underground tunnels in Maui, and I've heard that there's also a DUMB, but I haven't been able to verify the latter yet.
UPDATE! Missing Children + School Bus Mystery | Maui Massacre
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