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Approved, what its going to take a long time as the mayor and the governor alluded to, so much destruction, its going to take time to rebuild. Thank you. fit take time to rebuild. Thank ou. , take time to rebuild. Thank ou. ~ ,. , take time to rebuild. Thank ou. ,. , ~ you. At this time, would like to brina you. At this time, would like to bring up you. At this time, would like to bring up robert you. At this time, would like to bring up robert fenton, l to bring up robert fenton, region to bring up robert fenton, region nine fema administrator. We appreciate it. First, our condolences and prayer for those of lost friends and loved ones during this event. We want to be with you, not only now that through the recovery in the years to come. Also, a message of safety, continue to heed the warnings of local officials. Dont wait, listen to them, heed to their warnings. As all the speakers before me talked about, its unity of effort. Ijust like before me talked about, its unity of effort. ....
Those who have been displaced select wasnt of some of the governor had to say. Its select wasnt of some of the governor had to say. Governor had to say. Its a heartbreaking governor had to say. Its a heartbreaking day, governor had to say. Its a | heartbreaking day, without governor had to say. Its a i heartbreaking day, without a doubt. What we think that has been catastrophic but we tell you there is going to be a team effort to bring our state back. What we saw was the utter devastation of lahaina. We walked from end to end today as a team, mayor bessant for the county, Senator Schatz, federal level and myself, plus all of our teams and what we saw was likely the largest Natural Disaster in hawaii state history. You will recall in 1960 we had one year into statehood a tsunami that hit and took 61 lives on the big island. We are seeing loss of life here. As you know, the ....
You ve placed upwards of 2000 people displaced. it s difficult with the economic pressures for affordable housing. hats off to them. salto they have a very good short term plan and a commitment from all levels to begin to address that but i don t think this is ever going to be ok but i think it s going to be ok but i think it s going to take a number of years before the community returns to some sense of normalcy. rich elliott, chair some sense of normalcy. rich elliott, chair of some sense of normalcy. rich elliott, chair of the elliott, chair of the international association of fire chiefs wildland fire policy committee, thank you so much for your analysis and for being with us on bbc news. thank you. being with us on bbc news. thank yon- thank you. we heard a few minutes thank you. we heard a few minutes ago thank you. we heard a few minutes ago an thank you. we heard a few minutes ago an official- thank you. we heard a few i minutes ago an official update on the situ ....
Obviously lost in the interim. obviously you ve placed upwards of 2000 people displaced. it s difficult with the economic pressures for affordable housing. hats off to them. salto they have a very good short term plan and a commitment from all levels to begin to address that but i don t think this is ever going to be ok but i think it s going to be ok but i think it s going to take a number of years before the community returns to some sense of normalcy. rich elliott, chair some sense of normalcy. rich elliott, chair of some sense of normalcy. rich elliott, chair of the elliott, chair of the international association of fire chiefs wildland fire policy committee, thank you so much for your analysis and for being with us on bbc news. thank you. being with us on bbc news. thank vom being with us on bbc news. thank yon- thank you. we heard a few minutes thank you. we heard a few minutes ago thank you. we heard a few minutes ago an thank you. we heard a few minutes ago an o ....