Maui officials say they will hire an outside expert to analyze how the county’s emergency management agency handled devastating wildfires nine months ago
Nine months after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century struck Maui, Mayor Richard Bissen says the county will hire an outside expert to assess how its emergency management agency performed during the disaster. The Aug. 8 wildfire killed 101 people and destroyed much of the historic town of Lahaina. Maui’s police and fire departments have already conducted after-action reports.
County officials didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press Thursday with questions, including why the request is being made now. Many of the recommendations in the police preliminary after-action report released in February call for better equipment and updates to technology — from getting officers earpieces they can use when high winds make it hard to hear their radios to equipping patrol cars with breaching kits to remove downed trees or utility poles from roadways.
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