“You can’t fight fire when you don’t have water,” said Maui resident Ross Hart, who lost his home in the blazes.
for allegedly ignoring warning signs to shut off power lines during hurricane-force winds. The company has noted that West Maui’s water system relies on electrical power to deliver water to hydrants.
Turning off the power would have left firefighters without water — but the decison to leave it on seemed to be in vain anyway because the wildfires eventually took out power stations and damaged water valves. “It just beat us in the end. We had to get out,” he added. “You can’t fight fire when you don’t have water.”AFP via Getty ImagesAP
Keahi Ho, a firefighter who was on duty in Lahaina, told the Times that every time his crew thought they had extinguished one fire, another popped up in an area where the hydrants ran dry.
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