When asked Wednesday by reporters if he regretted not activating warning sirens when the wildfires broke out Aug. 8, Herman Andaya responded, 'I do not.'
, which has claimed the lives of at least 111 people — the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
When the Maui wildfires broke out Aug. 8, residents said they were not evacuated and none of the island's warning sirens sounded for evacuation. "Had we sounded the sirens that night, we were afraid that people would have gone mauka , and if that was the case, they would have gone into the fire," Andaya said."So that is the reason why, it is our protocol, to use WEA [Wireless Emergency Alerts] and EAS [the Emergency Alert System]."Hawaii's official government website lists"wildfires" as one of the hazards the siren alert system can be used for.
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