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The initial reports of a brush fire came in after midnight Tuesday in Maui's Kula region and led to dozens of early-morning evacuations in that area. Then, another brush fire was reported after 6: ...
The statewide system, made up of more than 400 emergency sirens dotted across the Aloha State, is said to be the largest integrated emergency siren network in the world, alerting residents to ...
The silent sirens have raised questions about whether everything was done to alert the public in a state that possesses an elaborate emergency warning system for a variety of dangers including ...
Hawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the world. "We were afraid that people would have gone mauka," Mr Andaya said, using a Hawaiian word that means inland or ...
Officials also outlined what would happen if an emergency alert were sent: a push alert to smartphones and a message interrupting television and radio broadcasts. [17] [22] Earlier in January 2018, U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said the commission planned to vote to overhaul the wireless emergency alert system.
The Associated Press reported that the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency did not sound sirens, instead relying on alerting people through smartphones along with television and radio broadcasts ...
Hawaii senator Mazie Hirono told CNN she was “not going to make any excused for this tragedy” and that the attorney general has launched a review into the alarm system and actions that were taken.
Officials say the dramatic speed of Hawaii’s wildfires left no time to trigger the state’s siren alert system Maui residents may not have been warned as wildfires approached because no alarm ...