are very complicated in terms of land and water rights. but the thing is, there is a big disconnect on the ground. this place is prone to wild fire. everything everyone knows there s a wildfire every year, but officials don t think of wildfires. they re dialed in for hurricane response yet they did not deploy their hurricane sirens to warn residents about this incoming danger. they re under immense scrutiny for that. the grassland is the big problem. there s a lot of issues with plantation lands shutting down, developers, who is responsible for managing these lands, taking water away from native hawaiians and diverting it toward the resorts. the fire hydrants run out of water. that s not the first time this has happened. there have been multiple pleas for accounts for past fires, and it s unclear where whether any investigations have done to the causes of those fires. residents feel they were just set up for this to happen. you just got back from hawaii. i don t know what time zone
which owns land in lahaina claims manuel denied an emergency request to move more water from streams into reservoirs. that supply city water, including fire hydrants. manuel told them they first had to clear it with native hawaiian farmers. in a letter the company says by the time they got that approval, it was too late. writing, quote: no one is happy there was water in the streams while our homes, our businesses, our lands and our lives were reduced to ash. manuel has since been reassigned. afraid that people would have gone maui s controversial head of emergency management herman man i do a is resigning days after saying this. do you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. criticized for not using the island s siren system. this as officials say the search for victims is going slower than expected with about 60% of the burn area searched and only a small number identified.
third party investigator and also having the atf on the ground to determine the cause of the fire is really going to be i don t want to say closure, but will provide answers for people who want to know why did this happen and how did this happen. we already heard from a lot of people, they re blaming hawaiian electric, now facing four lawsuits for allegedly having a downed power line that may have sparked the fire. hawaiian electric responded saying they do not comment on pending litigation. but we have seen several videos that show what appear it appears to show downed power lines, smoke and fire. and, you know, and andaya resigning, there could be potentially more people who are held accountable. we heard from the water commissioner who has been reassigned. there are concerns that enough water wasn t released on maui when they needed that water to fight the fire. we heard from several firefighters who say the water pressure from the fire hydrants were very low, so that s another
at the expense of community involvement, they re insisting. and number three, there s a chapter 92 sunshine law in hawaii that mandates transparency in these big decisions when it comes to building. and you ve got to understand the context, not just the trauma these folks are going through right now, but generationally since cat and cook who was the first outsidered ended up trying to kid nap the king of hawaii and generation after generation of outsiders have come in here and changed this place often for the worst. manitation, sugar cane owners changed the ecology around lahaina, and that s a water fight still ongoing. they said here the water in this place is controlled 75% of it by private interests. there s a fight now about whether or not water rights had something to do with fire hydrants not having enough pressure as firefighters are trying to put out their own neighborhoods. so there s that piece of it, but they re really worried they ll
complicated land and water rights. but the thing is, there is a big disconnect on the ground. this place is prone to wild fire. everything everyone knows there s a wildfire every year, but officials don t think of wildfires. they re dialed in for hurricane response yet they did not deploy their hurricane sirens to warn residents about this incoming danger. they re under immense scrutiny for that. the grassland is the big problem. there s a lot of issues with plantation lands shutting down, developers, who is responsible for managing these lands, taking water away from native hawaiians and diverting it toward the resorts. the fire hydrants run out of water. that s not the first time this is happened. there have been melt bowl accounts for pacifiers and it s unclear where whether any