Oprah W.??? Please watch your children carefully, people of Maui 🙏🏼… and please don’t let “them” steel your land! My heart goes out to all the people and animals who have lost their lives and to all those who lost or still miss loved ones ❤!!! This is so unimaginably sad ❤️🩹
SHARE!!! Just reported from a whistleblower:: What your not hearing from our local government I just got out of a meeting where I was informed by someone in the Mayors office about developments that are being kept from the public. I am not a conspiracy theorist and I don’t want to make trouble but here’s what I’ve heard. The amount of fatalities is expected to be more than 500 but less than 1000. Many of the fatalities will be children who were at home because they canceled school. Parents worked and were not there to evacuate the children. Kids had no idea they needed to leave and by the time they noticed their homes or apartments were on fire, it was too late. The government is worried about how we will react when we learn that the fire department left the fire earlier in the day and claimed it was 100% contained knowing that the winds were expected to be 70mph by the afternoon. This is against all fire control protocols. The fire department should not have left the original fire unattended. They are scared that the public calls for accountability will be more than they can control and protests and riots will occur. They plan to lock down Lahaina for several months. It will take months to clean up the hazardous and environmental contamination. They won’t have enough housing for All the displaced. There were 2,000 unaccounted for this morning. They have a list where they are trying to keep track. They found 700 today. But there are still 1300 missing. They are very worried that the community is going to freak out when they find out how not a single fire truck responded to the fires. The emergency sirens were not activated (hurricane sirens) and loss of life could have been kept down by better emergency management which utterly failed. I’m not trying to make waves or stir up problems but I was so angry and sad when I found out how many children are dead that I knew I had to post this and let everyone know what I have learned. It’s time for our officials to stand up, tell the truth, and face the music. They failed Lāhainā guys. Our government is full of incompetent nepotism. The fire chief is the son of the former fire chief. We need to hold officials accountable for the mistakes they made. Please don’t hate the messenger. I’m just relaying what I learned today. God bless Maui and Lahaina! Pray for all the victims.
After going through 2 tornadoes destroying my town, I can truly testify to the fact that disaster’s are horrific. But always bring out the truth of humanity by bringing the community together.
There is much advanced notification should a tsunami develop. People have plenty time to go upcountry.. Everyone is very calm and orderly..this was really out of the ordinary how this developed so quickly.
Thanks for reporting without a pressured voice!! The impact of the fire is devastating enough, no need to add to the horror of it with hysterical reporting!
It's not hysterical reporting. It's called trauma. Reporters, too, might benefit from therapy. Compassion must be utilized. A village mentality would be most welcome. Sarcasm is never beneficial.
the impact of the fire IS devastating enough, and NO ONE wants to add to the horror of it, but questions DO need to be asked and DO need to be answered. there are too many factors involved that need scrutiny. almost instantly the governor made his pronouncements, it was all about being 'net zero', about running everything digitally (AI), etc, etc, all from the WEF playbook. a book listed on amazon 2-3 days later (fire and fury) purporting to be comprehensive analysis of what happened, including eye witness testimony from locals, on the spot journalism (when even local journalists were not allowed to go in). this seems to me to show remarkable writting skills on the part of the author, and even astounding skills on the part of the publisher. so, the text alerts didn't get through, and the alarm system failed. i would suggest this may be a warning about putting all of your eggs in the AI basket, but would also ask, does that mean that the text alerts and alarm system was hit FIRST, or was everything hit simultaneously? either way it is an astonishing stroke of extreme bad luck. the level of destruction, buidings rendered to dust, glass liquified, yet tarmac seemingly untouched, the footage at 11.15 shows a number of wholly destroyed vehicles, one of which sits under a tree. that tree does not have so much as a scorch mark, and a lot of that wood is little more than kindling in thickness. how can that be. there are too many questions, there are too many saying this was DEW's i'm not saying it was, i'm saying THESE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ASKED, THEN ANSWERED. too many agendas are satisfied if they are not.
There is a rapidly growing group of people who are strongly considering filing charges against local authorities in Maui to the ICC for blatan human rights violations.
Please please tell us also about Kaanopoli as we’ve been told it’s being evacuated and some small fires there. We need more information. The raging winds were awful but the fires were not started by themselves.
We are still rebuilding here in Sonoma County after the 2017 Tubbs fire. It takes so much longer than you may think to rebuild. Stay strong, Maui. Also, don’t rely on government or anyone to tell you to get out in time. They can’t. The minute you hear of wildfire anywhere near you, GET OUT! The night we got out the fire was coming just as fast. This goes for everywhere in the world now. God bless all those suffering. 🙏
Depending on where the fire started there might not have been more than a couple minutes from ignition until conflagration -- given the near hurricane winds, there was not going to be much time. The truly horrifying thing is that this was not a small town, the population of 13K+ is bigger than many towns or even cities elsewhere in the lower 48. I checked to see what the prevailing wind direction is and it says 80% from the north and east -- that a lot different than most places in the lower 48 where the prevailing winds are mostly from the west. The fact that Lahaina is on the west coast of Maui and the winds coming from the east or north-east would blow from the escape routes towards the ocean and I'd bet that played a role in people getting caught in there cars.
@@harley2die4 .. The way all these catastrophies have been continuously happening, it is so obvious there was corruption behind them. Nothing is natural about this fire. Everything that normally has been working there ( sirens, fire hydrants, etc.) ALL!!suddenly went bad at the SAME TIME? No, again another strike for the greedy elites, corporations, celebrities and anyone else who had something to gain from all this. So sorry for those people and the lives lost.
There’s going to be wind but when the land isn’t taken care of , power lines not maintained , water withheld for fire hydrants and no communication to evacuate there’s going to be death and destruction. This didn’t need to happen !
There is a rapidly growing group of people who are strongly considering filing charges against local authorities in Maui to the ICC for blatan human rights violations! This is outragous!
I think the winds were far faster than originally reported at 40mph. Winds had to have been 115mph + at certain times. Fire tornados were seen and reported on the news. This was an impossible trap to escape unless you just barely could have ran ahead of it and swam deep into the ocean or happened to get opposite of these powerful winds 🙏 My heart and soul hurts so bad right now 😔 This doesn't feel right at all right now. Something just murdered a whole city and we will get to the bottom of it .
At this point in time media should not be allowed into the town - they would impede the horrific job of professionals trying to find individuals that did not make it out 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Again Tony, its not very hard to pronounce: Lahaina, NOT LaHEYnah. You mispronounced Lahaina in your earlier report, when the sun was still shinning, now its nighttime. Please do your research, ask a Local Person they would be happy to tutor you on pronouncing Lahaina.
Lot of strange things with this fire. Metal boats out in the ocean melting, trees and shrubs with greenery still intact next to melted cars, buildings and structures. Explosions going off everywhere. Multiple fires all around the island ignited simultaneously. The most heavily equipped state with warning sirens remained silent.
Watching tiktoks of people trying to drive out via Front street traffick jam. There were NO EMERGENCY VEHICLES there. Before the sun blotted out you can see people walking aimlessly. Why? So many more could have been saved. The fire was burning for hours at that point. Boats could have evacuated hundreds along that harbor. It's mind boggling.
Because they knew it was coming.some even had prvt companies to handle any fire that would come close to thier homes. This is soo obvious what's going on. For years the indigenous people have been trying to oust the foreigners and now the foreigners. Aka super rich gave them a response. "We are taking your land whether you like it or not"
Condolence to all the families who lost family members and also their property. But I believe this faire was a failure on all levels there from the Fire Stations, Head Police Chief and government. THey didn't do way enough to warn these people about the fires and to evacuate.
So lets say your in Charge, Where would you have had people evacuate to before the fire hit. Are you saying you knew were there fire was going to hit. Should they have evacuated the whole island and if so were too. Remember fires hit all over Maui from Kihei to up country Kula. You know that anyone can tell me the correct score after a game, but if you want to impress me tell me the score before the game starts. Instead of using your hands to point fingers, put them together and pray and then use them to help these people get there lives back.
Sorry to ruffe your feathers but it is funny no clevertity home was destroy there at all...none. But getting back to my point the people themselves say there was no warning at all. This is unacceptance. If you have any information that could have save lives spread the information. So tell me this if you had any warning that a fire was started in your home or business and you was there do you just stay and hope you put it out especially if it looks like it is hopeless...nope. You run. Most people tried to escape by cars but guess what it was a traffic jam. Many people died in their cars. Some people ran toward the water which if I had time would have done. Someone has to take blame for this and at the same time help the people too. This should never ever happen again there. Warn the people...period@@joetavares8716
Damn shame. Such evilness. This is corruption to the core. Journalists not allowed to enter, why? because too much to be covered up. People will see. Damn shame! My heart and prayers go out to those precious people, animals and wildlife.
😢 Prayers for those on Maui, bless them. They will rebuild a better future. It's massively overdue for electric companies to put their power lines underground. How many more disasters will happen before human life is more valuable than a power company's bottom line?
Lahaina should be rebuilt differently. The buildings should be built out of concrete. They were the only buildings left standing after the fire. Wider streets that will make functional fire breaks in the future. So this devastating situation will not happen to this extent in the future.
Anti- flammable materials sounds good. But widening streets and installing firebreaks? Sounds good also, but then a whole bunch of eminent domain land grabs will happen. Landowners will get low-balled and it’ll feel they’ll get displaced a second time.
Im a firm believer that the gov't has finger prints in all of this until they find a legitimate reason on how this fire started. Canada was the test if you ask me.😢
The Governor of Hawaii must RESIGN. The police blocked people from leaving Lahaina, forcing people to stay in their cars as they couldnt exit town, the water was shut off, and the sirens were not used.....also when do schools shut down for wind gusts? The hurricane was 5 or 600 miles away!!!!!
So tragic and inexcusable that Maui County's elected officials are climate loons that were more concerned with filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies over non-existent climate change impact and making time to make an official resolution supporting the Paris Climate Accord but had no concerns over and no desire to ensure Maui County had adequate fire prevention, fire mitigation and firefighting capabilities in place.
Mick Fleetwood said "he wanted to help his Ohana."The problem is we are all Ohana. Skin complexion and place of birth does not denote race or family. There is only one race and its called the human race. The race of man of many colors. We are all Ohana and should behave as such.
So sad that apparently so many people were affected in this disaster. It's hard to conceive of all those poor victims trapped behind the fire lines. It looks l like the cell towers were damaged/destroyed so fast that there wasn't time to get emergency messages out to those who needed to know. I hope they realize that most have been able to get out in time and just aren't able to easily communicate right now. That interview paints a picture of such a fast moving wall of fire that's terrifying to think about. I'm glad Oprah is able to offer folks in the shelter some kindness. Maybe she'll be able to help with some $$ as well. With a supposed net worth of 2.5 BILLION dollars she could def do a lot of good if she was so inclined. That business owner from Down The Hatch handing his people money is what I hope we hear more of. There are clearly a lot of extremely wealthy individuals in that paradise. I don't even know how working class folks can afford to live in that place! It seems like a very difficult place for anyone in the service industry to be able to afford to live and work.
SHARE!!! Just reported from a whistleblower:: What your not hearing from our local government I just got out of a meeting where I was informed by someone in the Mayors office about developments that are being kept from the public. I am not a conspiracy theorist and I don’t want to make trouble but here’s what I’ve heard. The amount of fatalities is expected to be more than 500 but less than 1000. Many of the fatalities will be children who were at home because they canceled school. Parents worked and were not there to evacuate the children. Kids had no idea they needed to leave and by the time they noticed their homes or apartments were on fire, it was too late. The government is worried about how we will react when we learn that the fire department left the fire earlier in the day and claimed it was 100% contained knowing that the winds were expected to be 70mph by the afternoon. This is against all fire control protocols. The fire department should not have left the original fire unattended. They are scared that the public calls for accountability will be more than they can control and protests and riots will occur. They plan to lock down Lahaina for several months. It will take months to clean up the hazardous and environmental contamination. They won’t have enough housing for All the displaced. There were 2,000 unaccounted for this morning. They have a list where they are trying to keep track. They found 700 today. But there are still 1300 missing. They are very worried that the community is going to freak out when they find out how not a single fire truck responded to the fires. The emergency sirens were not activated (hurricane sirens) and loss of life could have been kept down by better emergency management which utterly failed. I’m not trying to make waves or stir up problems but I was so angry and sad when I found out how many children are dead that I knew I had to post this and let everyone know what I have learned. It’s time for our officials to stand up, tell the truth, and face the music. They failed Lāhainā guys. Our government is full of incompetent nepotism. The fire chief is the son of the former fire chief. We need to hold officials accountable for the mistakes they made. Please don’t hate the messenger. I’m just relaying what I learned today. God bless Maui and Lahaina! Pray for all the victims.
You being there is not helping anyone at all. You have no knowledge of the area, the people, or how to say the name of the town. You said 3% of the area had been searched for remains, yet there you are walking around in the area you were not cleared to be in. They need help and assistance, not a camera and mic shoved in their face as the endure such pain few of us can understand or even contemplate. Prayers to the town and the families of the fallen.
The reporters should not be allowed into the area. The police and firefighters are doing their jobs. And stop blaming the government for not sounding alarms. It happened so quickly. Have some compassion for the people who have to deal with this disaster. Praying for all who lost loved ones, homes, businesses and jobs. 😢
The first responders are experiencing inhumane stressors. This will bring extreme long term physical and mental trauma. Attacking them, rather than nurturing them in order to honor them, and heal them for their sacrifices, and them putting their own lives on the line ... DO BETTER! This is a travesty. It will take a village, internationally, to rebuild. And, WE will accomplish this. Aloha.
Get real! Maui is a small place unprepared for this. Why aren’t you showing how fast fire can spread in 60-80 mph winds through drought dried plants, houses built of wood, electric lines down starting more fires, creosote soaked docks and buildings. My question: Where were you NEWS all these years while Emergency Resources BUDGETS were lowered made less and less effective as populations grew/grow. Where are you when Scientists warned of poor land use, less rain, global catastrophic Climate change. If hundreds turned on their hoses hoping to put out or avoid the fire-water in the pipes feeding hydrants would automatically lower. Then consider water lines added to sugarcane fields taking water from lines serving the towns. Not enough fire trucks and fire fighters as budgets reduced. Same with newer larger water lines. Private resorts given tax breaks yet adding onto burden placed on the area’s lagging Emergency Services . The comment about Journalists not allowed into areas was at least followed by information about asbestos and toxins. BEST would be showing on screen for a longer than typical time phone numbers, addresses where help can be found. There are groups beginning to have money from donations to give directly to people for rent, paying employees. I live in Hurricane land where help comes at different speeds after easy or difficult procedures. I’m sure the Gov. will be blamed because people aren’t immediately getting money promised. I’m sure he’s hiding it in a secret warehouse to be handed out immediately. If he could, he would. Point is: the current ideas are immediate self-gratification in a world pretty much still struggling with day to day situations. For most people, that is. Now would be a good time to remind viewers to know their community’s disaster and evacuation plan as well as ways to self-prepare for such events. Saying this, even the best preparation isn’t enough at times. 😢😢 for Maui.
This reporter Jonathon Bigliotti - his work has been helpful and phenomenal. I loved how he spoke truth to the emergency manager - who clearly got the job through connections not qualifications. Jonathon needs a promotion and a raise after this. This is a tragic story that Maui government wants to downplay and cover up. Governor needs to resign too by the way.
Why was the reporter allowed to go in? I don't understand. This is a place where there are bodies. Where is the respect for those lost? Shame on reporters. Things take time. Just because people want to know does that give folks the right to go into the area? It's a disaster area not to mention a place where there are fatalities.
Hard to answer when phones are toast! People have no place to stay, assuming they survived. The people that would "gather and disperse" information are victims too!
Hey why not report about the miracle Catholic Church untouched by the fire???? Incredibly miraculous but CBS doesn't cover such a message about God and His Mercy.
Condolences to the families who have lost family members, and God Bless every person who survived and the long road of recovery that lays ahead.
That owner seems like such a sweet human being. I hope everything works out for him! RIP to those who were lost! Im sorry for everyones loss!
God bless all the people helping those in need. Prayers to all those affected by this tragedy.
Oprah W.??? Please watch your children carefully, people of Maui 🙏🏼… and please don’t let “them” steel your land!
My heart goes out to all the people and animals who have lost their lives and to all those who lost or still miss loved ones ❤!!!
This is so unimaginably sad ❤️🩹
It will really become suspicious if the clintons swoop in with their "foundation", and hollywierd celebs get in on the action. 🤔
Yes! 👹
Orphan Hunting!!!!
Land grabbing!
BlackRock
SHARE!!! Just reported from a whistleblower::
What your not hearing from our local government
I just got out of a meeting where I was informed by someone in the Mayors office about developments that are being kept from the public. I am not a conspiracy theorist and I don’t want to make trouble but here’s what I’ve heard.
The amount of fatalities is expected to be more than 500 but less than 1000.
Many of the fatalities will be children who were at home because they canceled school. Parents worked and were not there to evacuate the children. Kids had no idea they needed to leave and by the time they noticed their homes or apartments were on fire, it was too late.
The government is worried about how we will react when we learn that the fire department left the fire earlier in the day and claimed it was 100% contained knowing that the winds were expected to be 70mph by the afternoon. This is against all fire control protocols. The fire department should not have left the original fire unattended. They are scared that the public calls for accountability will be more than they can control and protests and riots will occur.
They plan to lock down Lahaina for several months. It will take months to clean up the hazardous and environmental contamination. They won’t have enough housing for
All the displaced.
There were 2,000 unaccounted for this morning. They have a list where they are trying to keep track. They found 700 today. But there are still 1300 missing.
They are very worried that the community is going to freak out when they find out how not a single fire truck responded to the fires. The emergency sirens were not activated (hurricane sirens) and loss of life could have been kept down by better emergency management which utterly failed.
I’m not trying to make waves or stir up problems but I was so angry and sad when I found out how many children are dead that I knew I had to post this and let everyone know what I have learned.
It’s time for our officials to stand up, tell the truth, and face the music. They failed Lāhainā guys. Our government is full of incompetent nepotism. The fire chief is the son of the former fire chief. We need to hold officials accountable for the mistakes they made.
Please don’t hate the messenger. I’m just relaying what I learned today.
God bless Maui and Lahaina! Pray for all the victims.
She was just visiting your future acquisition.
Thank you, Oprah, and everyone who is there doing what they can to help. 🙏
Great reporting Mr. Evans! To see & feel the heart ache of loss and devastation with a splash of hope for this communities recovery! A+
Hey, governor, the sirens also go off in Lahaina for high winds. So much omission from so many, except from locals.
guess the power company started the fires and the alarms were disabled
All 400 sirens were disabled just prior. Right
@@shoutingatclouds1050 and the fire hydrants went dry
@@erickane7093 Eric, really? City management is happy to announce it will now be a (Smat City) meaning no private vehicle or property.
@@shoutingatclouds1050 is that S.M.A.R.T. city
@@erickane7093 Yes next month they will be having a meeting about.
After going through 2 tornadoes destroying my town, I can truly testify to the fact that disaster’s are horrific. But always bring out the truth of humanity by bringing the community together.
I'm surprised that this city doesn't have fire boats.
With the road situation it doesn't seem like people could escape a tsunami either.
That's the first thing I thought of too……
Well the fire was being blown into the sea and the boats were lit on fire
There is much advanced notification should a tsunami develop. People have plenty time to go upcountry..
Everyone is very calm and orderly..this was really out of the ordinary how this developed so quickly.
Thanks for reporting without a pressured voice!! The impact of the fire is devastating enough, no need to add to the horror of it with hysterical reporting!
YES IS SO CREAZY REPORT AND HIGH VOICE LIKE THEY LIKE THE NEW AND SOMETIME NOT LOVE SEE NOT FEELING
It's not hysterical reporting. It's called trauma. Reporters, too, might benefit from therapy. Compassion must be utilized. A village mentality would be most welcome. Sarcasm is never beneficial.
the impact of the fire IS devastating enough, and NO ONE wants to add to the horror of it, but questions DO need to be asked and DO need to be answered. there are too many factors involved that need scrutiny.
almost instantly the governor made his pronouncements, it was all about being 'net zero', about running everything digitally (AI), etc, etc, all from the WEF playbook.
a book listed on amazon 2-3 days later (fire and fury) purporting to be comprehensive analysis of what happened, including eye witness testimony from locals, on the spot journalism (when even local journalists were not allowed to go in). this seems to me to show remarkable writting skills on the part of the author, and even astounding skills on the part of the publisher.
so, the text alerts didn't get through, and the alarm system failed. i would suggest this may be a warning about putting all of your eggs in the AI basket, but would also ask, does that mean that the text alerts and alarm system was hit FIRST, or was everything hit simultaneously? either way it is an astonishing stroke of extreme bad luck.
the level of destruction, buidings rendered to dust, glass liquified, yet tarmac seemingly untouched, the footage at 11.15 shows a number of wholly destroyed vehicles, one of which sits under a tree. that tree does not have so much as a scorch mark, and a lot of that wood is little more than kindling in thickness. how can that be.
there are too many questions,
there are too many saying this was DEW's
i'm not saying it was, i'm saying THESE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ASKED, THEN ANSWERED. too many agendas are satisfied if they are not.
Sounds like Paradise CA! So sad! God be with Maui!❤
Horrifying, total misguided by the local authorities 😢😮.
There is a rapidly growing group of people who are strongly considering filing charges against local authorities in Maui to the ICC for blatan human rights violations.
This is so terrible there are no words.
Looks like a scene from a horror movie. I 🙏 for everyone affected by this terrible fire.
DO NOT donate to Red Cross. Donate to Maui Food Bank. It's local.
Sending prayers for dose who lost love once may God give you strenght
Please please tell us also about Kaanopoli as we’ve been told it’s being evacuated and some small fires there. We need more information. The raging winds were awful but the fires were not started by themselves.
The winds knocked down power poles which started the fires
We are still rebuilding here in Sonoma County after the 2017 Tubbs fire. It takes so much longer than you may think to rebuild. Stay strong, Maui. Also, don’t rely on government or anyone to tell you to get out in time. They can’t. The minute you hear of wildfire anywhere near you, GET OUT! The night we got out the fire was coming just as fast. This goes for everywhere in the world now. God bless all those suffering. 🙏
It sounds explosive !! Fire hydrants had no water?? Was there a gas leak ??
They will probably make a 15 minute city, people weren't selling their homes
Wow. the trees still standing and everything around it burned including metal and boats on water. That's just absolutely unbelievable.
The ground was already super heated up by global warming caused by the OIL COMPANIES HEATING UP THE EARTH
Depending on where the fire started there might not have been more than a couple minutes from ignition until conflagration -- given the near hurricane winds, there was not going to be much time. The truly horrifying thing is that this was not a small town, the population of 13K+ is bigger than many towns or even cities elsewhere in the lower 48. I checked to see what the prevailing wind direction is and it says 80% from the north and east -- that a lot different than most places in the lower 48 where the prevailing winds are mostly from the west. The fact that Lahaina is on the west coast of Maui and the winds coming from the east or north-east would blow from the escape routes towards the ocean and I'd bet that played a role in people getting caught in there cars.
I've seen it reported that the fire spread in 17 minutes.
@@harley2die4 .. The way all these catastrophies have been continuously happening, it is so obvious there was corruption behind them. Nothing is natural about this fire. Everything that normally has been working there ( sirens, fire hydrants, etc.) ALL!!suddenly went bad at the SAME TIME? No, again another strike for the greedy elites, corporations, celebrities and anyone else who had something to gain from all this. So sorry for those people and the lives lost.
There’s going to be wind but when the land isn’t taken care of , power lines not maintained , water withheld for fire hydrants and no communication to evacuate there’s going to be death and destruction. This didn’t need to happen !
😢No words... 🙏💔
There is a rapidly growing group of people who are strongly considering filing charges against local authorities in Maui to the ICC for blatan human rights violations! This is outragous!
Thank God the family members made it out of that madness alive. So many are robbed of that fortunate opportunity.
Prayers for everyone 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Stop with the prayers they don't do anything
I think the winds were far faster than originally reported at 40mph. Winds had to have been 115mph + at certain times. Fire tornados were seen and reported on the news. This was an impossible trap to escape unless you just barely could have ran ahead of it and swam deep into the ocean or happened to get opposite of these powerful winds 🙏
My heart and soul hurts so bad right now 😔
This doesn't feel right at all right now. Something just murdered a whole city and we will get to the bottom of it .
question can this happen to the other islands of Hawaii
Yes. It could. I live in Hawaii. Born and raised.
Absolutely. Incompetence is spread evenly across all islands
At this point in time media should not be allowed into the town - they would impede the horrific job of professionals trying to find individuals that did not make it out 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Journalists should absolutely be allowed in, to document the truth
Again Tony, its not very hard to pronounce: Lahaina, NOT LaHEYnah. You mispronounced Lahaina in your earlier report, when the sun was still shinning, now its nighttime. Please do your research, ask a Local Person they would be happy to tutor you on pronouncing Lahaina.
Thank you
La High Na NOT LA Hey Na
La hi na for the love of Jesus.
God! Find a hobby😂😂😂😂😂
YES! You are switching back and forth between saying it correctly and incorrectly . Please say it the right way !
A resident stated in the beginning moments " the fire kept popping up from the ground "
link us to the original source.
Lot of strange things with this fire. Metal boats out in the ocean melting, trees and shrubs with greenery still intact next to melted cars, buildings and structures. Explosions going off everywhere. Multiple fires all around the island ignited simultaneously. The most heavily equipped state with warning sirens remained silent.
Watching tiktoks of people trying to drive out via Front street traffick jam. There were NO EMERGENCY VEHICLES there. Before the sun blotted out you can see people walking aimlessly. Why? So many more could have been saved. The fire was burning for hours at that point. Boats could have evacuated hundreds along that harbor. It's mind boggling.
People know what started this fire and you ALL need to listen to them .
How come celebrity houses escaped, yet fires have been jumping between boat-to-boat
Because they knew it was coming.some even had prvt companies to handle any fire that would come close to thier homes. This is soo obvious what's going on. For years the indigenous people have been trying to oust the foreigners and now the foreigners. Aka super rich gave them a response. "We are taking your land whether you like it or not"
People in Maui needs thousands of mobile homes as a temporary shelter. God willing things will improve day after day.
Where is the national guard??
The rich and famous need to come together and help out the people of Lahaina
Condolence to all the families who lost family members and also their property. But I believe this faire was a failure on all levels there from the Fire Stations, Head Police Chief and government. THey didn't do way enough to warn these people about the fires and to evacuate.
So lets say your in Charge, Where would you have had people evacuate to before the fire hit. Are you saying you knew were there fire was going to hit. Should they have evacuated the whole island and if so were too. Remember fires hit all over Maui from Kihei to up country Kula. You know that anyone can tell me the correct score after a game, but if you want to impress me tell me the score before the game starts. Instead of using your hands to point fingers, put them together and pray and then use them to help these people get there lives back.
Sorry to ruffe your feathers but it is funny no clevertity home was destroy there at all...none. But getting back to my point the people themselves say there was no warning at all. This is unacceptance. If you have any information that could have save lives spread the information. So tell me this if you had any warning that a fire was started in your home or business and you was there do you just stay and hope you put it out especially if it looks like it is hopeless...nope. You run. Most people tried to escape by cars but guess what it was a traffic jam. Many people died in their cars. Some people ran toward the water which if I had time would have done. Someone has to take blame for this and at the same time help the people too. This should never ever happen again there. Warn the people...period@@joetavares8716
Its time to change your leadership if you have found that your not getting the responce you need My heart and prayers are with all of you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Cellular companies should be required to install alerting failsafe's and a monitoring system instead of just having backup power.
I hope Mick Fleetwood will be on the planning board as they redevelop Lahaina..He knows how to keep the Essence of Lahaina intact. 🙏
Damn shame. Such evilness. This is corruption to the core. Journalists not allowed to enter, why? because too much to be covered up. People will see. Damn shame! My heart and prayers go out to those precious people, animals and wildlife.
Oprah? Yeah ok (cough!!) Suspicions
😢 Prayers for those on Maui, bless them. They will rebuild a better future.
It's massively overdue for electric companies to put their power lines underground. How many more disasters will happen before human life is more valuable than a power company's bottom line?
I know it's hard to understand, but this is a catastrophic. Hawaii hasn't been through anything like this. They are working as fast as they can.
Somebody needs to prompt these reporters how to pronounce Hawaiian words before going live and embarrassing themselves
I cannot unhear people saying, "Great Scott!"
Good grief, at least pronounce the name of the town correctly! Lāhaina = Lā hai (like high) na.
La hay na😂
exactly geeezzzz
Me hearing Lahaina (Lah-high-nah) being pronounced La-hay-na... 😳🙄🤨
It hasn’t been in the news enough to know how to say it correctly
@@petersoetaert Yes it has.
Lahaina should be rebuilt differently. The buildings should be built out of concrete. They were the only buildings left standing after the fire. Wider streets that will make functional fire breaks in the future. So this devastating situation will not happen to this extent in the future.
Anti- flammable materials sounds good. But widening streets and installing firebreaks? Sounds good also, but then a whole bunch of eminent domain land grabs will happen. Landowners will get low-balled and it’ll feel they’ll get displaced a second time.
Im a firm believer that the gov't has finger prints in all of this until they find a legitimate reason on how this fire started. Canada was the test if you ask me.😢
God Bless all on Maui. ❤
Why can't the guy reporting on scene pronounce the name of Lahaina correctly? It seems pretty rude.
No not a natural disaster, the fires were unprecedented
This fire has all the signs of the Northern California fires.
Arson
The Governor of Hawaii must RESIGN. The police blocked people from leaving Lahaina, forcing people to stay in their cars as they couldnt exit town, the water was shut off, and the sirens were not used.....also when do schools shut down for wind gusts? The hurricane was 5 or 600 miles away!!!!!
can the reporter learn how to say the name of the town please.....
Clearly directed energy weapons use.
we will rebuild better, Lahaina Strong
I got nothing to ofer, just one man prayer to God..
Hawaii area code is 808, Maui fire storm 8-08-23.......
Weird, creepy. 😢
must research this numerology
Get a hobby
My heart is with the generation of children so harmed. After this dire crisis, my hopes are for greatness to emerge.
Unbelievable 💔
God
That is one hands on governor
Of course & another hand accepting money from developers drooling looking at that waterfront properties.
@@harley2die4 80 siren but not even one been activated
So tragic and inexcusable that Maui County's elected officials are climate loons that were more concerned with filing lawsuits against fossil fuel companies over non-existent climate change impact and making time to make an official resolution supporting the Paris Climate Accord but had no concerns over and no desire to ensure Maui County had adequate fire prevention, fire mitigation and firefighting capabilities in place.
💯
True!
A thinking man? No way
1000%
@@RobertMJohnson So sad that Maui's elected leaders were not thinkers and instead allowed themselves to become victims to the climate change scam.
Mick Fleetwood said "he wanted to help his Ohana."The problem is we are all Ohana. Skin complexion and place of birth does not denote race or family. There is only one race and its called the human race. The race of man of many colors. We are all Ohana and should behave as such.
Perfectly said my dear .. perfect.😢😊❤
We have an entire weather channel praying for all of you. We love you. God will provide.
So sad that apparently so many people were affected in this disaster. It's hard to conceive of all those poor victims trapped behind the fire lines. It looks l like the cell towers were damaged/destroyed so fast that there wasn't time to get emergency messages out to those who needed to know. I hope they realize that most have been able to get out in time and just aren't able to easily communicate right now.
That interview paints a picture of such a fast moving wall of fire that's terrifying to think about.
I'm glad Oprah is able to offer folks in the shelter some kindness. Maybe she'll be able to help with some $$ as well.
With a supposed net worth of 2.5 BILLION dollars she could def do a lot of good if she was so inclined.
That business owner from Down The Hatch handing his people money is what I hope we hear more of. There are clearly a lot of extremely wealthy individuals in that paradise. I don't even know how working class folks can afford to live in that place!
It seems like a very difficult place for anyone in the service industry to be able to afford to live and work.
NO HYDRANTS< NO SIRENS> this is really stinky.
Your body will die but your Soul will live forever somewhere.
At 4:50 you can see the star of David in the sky.. strange!
Aloha from California
So sad 😣 why are no warning on cellphones?!
Text messages were sent out but many didn’t get them because the cell phone towers were knocked out.
@@prestok888 so you still need cell tower for emergency messages - why not use direct salelite communication?
SHARE!!! Just reported from a whistleblower::
What your not hearing from our local government
I just got out of a meeting where I was informed by someone in the Mayors office about developments that are being kept from the public. I am not a conspiracy theorist and I don’t want to make trouble but here’s what I’ve heard.
The amount of fatalities is expected to be more than 500 but less than 1000.
Many of the fatalities will be children who were at home because they canceled school. Parents worked and were not there to evacuate the children. Kids had no idea they needed to leave and by the time they noticed their homes or apartments were on fire, it was too late.
The government is worried about how we will react when we learn that the fire department left the fire earlier in the day and claimed it was 100% contained knowing that the winds were expected to be 70mph by the afternoon. This is against all fire control protocols. The fire department should not have left the original fire unattended. They are scared that the public calls for accountability will be more than they can control and protests and riots will occur.
They plan to lock down Lahaina for several months. It will take months to clean up the hazardous and environmental contamination. They won’t have enough housing for
All the displaced.
There were 2,000 unaccounted for this morning. They have a list where they are trying to keep track. They found 700 today. But there are still 1300 missing.
They are very worried that the community is going to freak out when they find out how not a single fire truck responded to the fires. The emergency sirens were not activated (hurricane sirens) and loss of life could have been kept down by better emergency management which utterly failed.
I’m not trying to make waves or stir up problems but I was so angry and sad when I found out how many children are dead that I knew I had to post this and let everyone know what I have learned.
It’s time for our officials to stand up, tell the truth, and face the music. They failed Lāhainā guys. Our government is full of incompetent nepotism. The fire chief is the son of the former fire chief. We need to hold officials accountable for the mistakes they made.
Please don’t hate the messenger. I’m just relaying what I learned today.
God bless Maui and Lahaina! Pray for all the victims.
"Got anything to say to the people of Hawaii Mr. President?"
"No comment" ~ Joe Biden.
Also, do investigative reporting and tell the people how EXACTLY how they can access the millions of donations!
First 15 minute city, plan thwarted.
Last year, city passes "no new development, but now, hmmmm ?
Think 🕊️😎💫✌️
You being there is not helping anyone at all. You have no knowledge of the area, the people, or how to say the name of the town. You said 3% of the area had been searched for remains, yet there you are walking around in the area you were not cleared to be in.
They need help and assistance, not a camera and mic shoved in their face as the endure such pain few of us can understand or even contemplate.
Prayers to the town and the families of the fallen.
Maybe of us has a hearts to help with this people in needs
The reporters should not be allowed into the area. The police and firefighters are doing their jobs. And stop blaming the government for not sounding alarms. It happened so quickly. Have some compassion for the people who have to deal with this disaster. Praying for all who lost loved ones, homes, businesses and jobs. 😢
The first responders are experiencing inhumane stressors. This will bring extreme long term physical and mental trauma. Attacking them, rather than nurturing them in order to honor them, and heal them for their sacrifices, and them putting their own lives on the line ... DO BETTER! This is a travesty. It will take a village, internationally, to rebuild. And, WE will accomplish this. Aloha.
So many vulture investors preying now,
Yes. The rich will take advantage of this catastrophe.
Oprah could sponsor every single one of those families and still be a billionaire.
So can Dwayne Johnson, his home!! So can all the real top 10 billionaires!
Why arent the mainstream media allowed into ground zero of Lahaina & Maui?!!
Why wont the Government let the Cajun Navy in to help?!! They have experience with this!!!
I won’t share my comments about the governor.
Tony please stop saying Laheyna
are volunteers needed?
You tell your people to call Chris of Island Project. He lives on Maui also but had to move to a different home. He’s also on youtube
God is a person. A living presence. Can see, hear and think.
They called the police and fire department ahead of time to cut the power to the island .
Get real! Maui is a small place unprepared for this. Why aren’t you showing how fast fire can spread in 60-80 mph winds through drought dried plants, houses built of wood, electric lines down starting more fires, creosote soaked docks and buildings. My question: Where were you NEWS all these years while Emergency Resources BUDGETS were lowered made less and less effective as populations grew/grow. Where are you when Scientists warned of poor land use, less rain, global catastrophic Climate change. If hundreds turned on their hoses hoping to put out or avoid the fire-water in the pipes feeding hydrants would automatically lower. Then consider water lines added to sugarcane fields taking water from lines serving the towns. Not enough fire trucks and fire fighters as budgets reduced. Same with newer larger water lines. Private resorts given tax breaks yet adding onto burden placed on the area’s lagging Emergency Services . The comment about Journalists not allowed into areas was at least followed by information about asbestos and toxins. BEST would be showing on screen for a longer than typical time phone numbers, addresses where help can be found. There are groups beginning to have money from donations to give directly to people for rent, paying employees. I live in Hurricane land where help comes at different speeds after easy or difficult procedures. I’m sure the Gov. will be blamed because people aren’t immediately getting money promised. I’m sure he’s hiding it in a secret warehouse to be handed out immediately. If he could, he would.
Point is: the current ideas are immediate self-gratification in a world pretty much still struggling with day to day situations.
For most people, that is.
Now would be a good time to remind viewers to know their community’s disaster and evacuation plan as well as ways to self-prepare for such events. Saying this, even the best preparation isn’t enough at times. 😢😢 for Maui.
I agree with about 80% of this.
Gods Spirit is the Aloha Spirit.
God is good all the time.
Arohamai lahaina from te ika a maui (north island east coast) new Zealand
I watched until Oprah.
Give us a break.
She'll be alright.
This reporter Jonathon Bigliotti - his work has been helpful and phenomenal.
I loved how he spoke truth to the emergency manager - who clearly got the job through connections not qualifications.
Jonathon needs a promotion and a raise after this.
This is a tragic story that Maui government wants to downplay and cover up.
Governor needs to resign too by the way.
It's Lahaina not La hay na
Why was the reporter allowed to go in? I don't understand. This is a place where there are bodies. Where is the respect for those lost? Shame on reporters. Things take time. Just because people want to know does that give folks the right to go into the area? It's a disaster area not to mention a place where there are fatalities.
Maybe chikwa does that, no detection installed at Maui Island
Devestation by design
Hard to answer when phones are toast! People have no place to stay, assuming they survived. The people that would "gather and disperse" information are victims too!
They should have a list of people who are missing so public can know who is alive. Families and friends should ck the list or add on.
Hey why not report about the miracle Catholic Church untouched by the fire???? Incredibly miraculous but CBS doesn't cover such a message about God and His Mercy.
3% area searched = 96 victims
100% = 3200 victims