The media as well as there are growing questions and concerns about whether the island was prepared for this fire, whether the warning sirens went off on time and with the residents of the area were given enough time to try to make their way to safety, because these fires spread very rapidly. We know they might have been fed at least in part by a hurricane that was taking place in the area, so some very terrifying scenes of residents having to flee to the ocean. It might be ready to get under way here, so lets see if we can get to listen if we can get the hawaiian governor to take the podium momentarily it looks like, about to get under way. 0k. Thank you forjoining us today during this most difficult time, especially for the people of maui. We are here to provide you with the latest updates and information from the county, the state and our federal partners as it relates to the wildfires throughout maui. At this time, i would like to invite governorjosh green to share his remarks. Alo
title ten element for all of the forces that we are going to bring forth to help other residents of maui. let me be clear about this also we are here in a support role. we are here in a support role. we are here to support medicine, his staff and the rest of the county agencies, not to take charge and not to take control so we spent the day today meeting with the mayor and his staff, looking at some of the problems support mayor bissen. and i really want to thank admiral aquilina and general flynn, the command of the united states army pacific. they are postured right now with a vast array of active duty forces that are ready to flow in the county of maui and so now that we are here on the ground we look forward to bringing those forces here and bringing those forces here and bringing some relief and support that the mayor s efforts here. thank you. mahalo, general logan. at this time, captain asia cooksey, said commander us coast guard
this understand that we can t at this tuck understand that we can t at this luck in ohio, because it witt this luck in ohio, because it will be this luck in ohio, because it will be in this luck in ohio, because it will be in the short term heartbreaking and in the long term people will need mental long term people will need mental health services 0hana~ mental health services ohana. we will work together. we have ohana. we will work together. we have brought this together and we we have brought this together and we appreciate your patience and we appreciate your patience and we and we appreciate your patience and we will do this conversation so the world knows what conversation so the world knows what maui conversation so the world knows what maui is going through. aloha i will remind everybody here today, we are the state of aloha so we asked kindly we operate under the respect. questions and answers will come when we go through remarks. which i have done
peopte people staying at the airport. people are making decisions as to when people are making decisions as to when they feel they are ready to when they feel they are ready to to when they feel they are ready to go. a lot of people are stunned, traumatised. traumatised by what they see peopte traumatised by what they see people going through. the mayor is spearheading this effort in maori is spearheading this effort in maori and we commend him because maori and we commend him because the workload is extraordinary maui. we are bringing extraordinary maui. we are bringing some support. when you look bringing some support. when you took at bringing some support. when you took at the bringing some support. when you look at the support that we can offerm look at the support that we can offer. there it is. he co ordinates this effort, but we have co ordinates this effort, but we have additional military support we have additional military support that has arrive
will be here every step of the way to help this community recover. already, as you heard, already have 150 people on the ground and there be more coming. we have more search and rescue teams with more dogs that are going to be here over the next day or two. but we cannot do this alone. we also bring in all of our federal partners and the presidential disaster declaration that president biden signed gives us the ability at fema to bring in all of ourfederal the ability at fema to bring in all of our federal partners and what you will see here today is we already have support from the small business administration, the army corps of engineers, the us fire administrator, department of defence, the coastguard, hhs, many more, will continue to bring in all of our federal partners as we better understand going to be needed to go through this recovery process. and for those who have not registered yet for fema assistance, i strongly encourage you to do so. contact your insurance company and t