The Maui Fire Department is expected to release a report Tuesday detailing how the agency responded to a series of wildfires that burned on the island during a windstorm last August
FILE - Kyle Ellison shows the pots he used to help put out a wildfire along the gorge, Sept. 27, 2023, in Kula, Hawaii. The Maui Fire Department is expected to release a report Tuesday, April 16, 2024, detailing how the agency responded to a series of wildfires that burned on the island during a windstorm last August. — including one that killed 101 people in the historic town of Lahaina and became the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
A similar after-action report was released by the Maui Police Department in February. It included 32 recommendations to improve the law enforcement agency's response to future tragedies, including that the department obtain better equipment and that it station a high-ranking officer in the island's communications center during emergencies.
The vast majority of the county’s fire crews were already tied up fighting other wildfires on a different part of the island, their efforts sometimes hindered by a critical loss of water pressure after the winds knocked out electricity for the water pumps normally used to load firefighting tanks and reservoirs. County officials have acknowledged that a lack of backup power for critical pumps made it significantly harder for crews to battle the Upcountry fires.
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