see the people who needed rescued, helicopters launched were not able to approach closely enough during the worst of the fire to see through the smoke. power in self-service is slowly being restored but another challenge for people who live here in some areas, the water is unsafe to drink because of contaminants from the fire. thanks so much for the live report, appreciate. devastating in so many ways, a beloved place so many lives lo lost, homes lost, businesses plus, we could go on and on. a lot of talk about work outdoor all hazard public safety warning system in place in hawaii, 400 sirens on the island chain, none went off from a cell phone text went out, people didn t get them because there was no cell phone coverage available, is there
see the people who needed rescued, helicopters launched were not able to approach closely enough during the worst of the fire to see through the smoke. power in self-service is slowly being restored but another challenge for people who live here in some areas, the water is unsafe to drink because of contaminants from the fire. thanks so much for the live report, appreciate. devastating in so many ways, a beloved place so many lives lo lost, homes lost, businesses plus, we could go on and on. a lot of talk about work outdoor all hazard public safety warning system in place in hawaii, 400 sirens on the island chain, none went off from a cell phone text went out, people didn t get them because there was no cell phone coverage available, is there going to be accountability for
i will tell you, growing up here in hawaii, anyone who lives here, every single month, we hear the warning sirens go off as a test. if you don t hear them in your neighborhoods, you know that something is wrong with them, so they get fixed. we rely on that system to keep us safe. you think of type of emergencies like wildfires, that should have been our first line of defense. these days, the alerts come on our cell phones, but we know there was no cell phone coverage in the area. so any alerts that would have gone through that system were not received. we clearly did not plan for redundancies to keep people safe. it s not like hurricane force winds are known for dry brush. we saw this before. we did not learn our lesson from
80 people are confirmed dead in those horrific wildfires on maui. and officials say that number will likely go up. will: more than 1,000 people are now considered missing. although many of those people, i m sure, are within without cell phone coverage but in safe locations. rachel: let s go to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with the fox weather forecast. rick: good morning, guys. without electricity, without cell towers, it s hard to get that information for so many people, so i m sure a lot of those people are certainly going to be okay. take a look at this, this is hurricane dora, one component of what caused all those winds. it s kind of interesting, it s about to cross the international date line, it will become typhoon dora once it does that. this fire now, second deadliest that we ve ever seen in the country. 88 was the highest from the camp fire in paradise. and back to dora, or when it was closer to hawaii, it was in conjunction with an area of high pressure to the north,
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