Survivors have been contending with intermittent power and unreliable cell service as they seek help rebuilding their lives.
Hawaii created what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the worldthat killed more than 150 on the Big Island. Andaya said they are primarily meant to warn about tsunamis and have never been used for wildfires. The website for the Maui siren system says they may be used to alert for fires.
Kimberly Buen was awaiting word Wednesday of her father, Maurice “Shadow” Buen, a retired sport fisherman who lived in an assisted-living facility that was destroyed. “If able-bodied people were having to run and jump into the ocean, I can only imagine what’s happened to the assisted living and the lower income and the elderly people that didn’t have warning, you know, or have any resources to get out,” she said.
“I’m hoping to at least try to get some normalcy or get them in a room where they can continue to learn or just be in another environment where they can take their minds off of that,” she said. “My intention from start to finish is to make sure that no one is victimized from a land grab,” he said.in more than a century, is under investigation. Green has warned that scores more bodies could be found.
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