Maui officials should have known what was coming. In 2014, they were put on notice that highly flammable invasive grasslands presented a serious wildfire risk. In 2018, after West Maui
It brings considerable relief that Herman Andaya, administrator of the Maui Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) when Lahaina was burning, resigned last Thursday.
Maui's emergency management director, Herman Andaya, called sirens "a last resort" in the years before the deadly Aug. 8 fire in Lahaina, records show.
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Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator Herman Andaya on Wednesday defended the decision not to activate sirens to warn residents about the rapidly moving inferno that overwhelmed Lahaina town.