Hawaii Locals 'Universally Angry' About Federal Response to Maui Wildfires

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

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The town of Lahaina, Hawaii, looks like it's been "bombed," The Daily Signal's Tony Kinnett says after visiting fire-devastated areas on the island of Maui. Kinnett, investigative columnist for The Daily Signal, spent five days on the ground in Lahaina and elsewhere on Maui. Where government officials have failed, he says, locals have stepped up to serve the needs of the community. "The locals are universally angry at the federal response," Kinnett said, and "it's very common for individuals to have already given thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars out of their bank accounts to complete strangers in order to help compensate them for this incredible loss." Kinnett joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what is known about how the devastating wildfires started on Maui, residents' frustration with government officials' response, and how President Joe Biden was received Monday on the island. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, August 24th, and this is the Daily Civil Podcast.
0:10.1	I'm from New Allen.
0:11.1	At least 115 people have died from the wildfires in Maui, and hundreds are still missing.
0:19.6	Could the Lahina fire have been prevented into the government respond to the fire correctly?
0:26.4	The Daily signals investigative columnist Tony Kinnett just returned from spending
0:31.6	quite a number of days on the ground in Hawaii and the city of Lahina, talking to locals
0:37.8	to answer those questions.
0:39.6	Tony, welcome back to the mainland.
0:42.8	It's a good to be home, certainly what we saw there on the ground was incredible.
0:47.4	I have never seen a community rally around support for those who have been affected by these
0:53.6	wildfires quite like I have seen.
0:56.1	The island of Maui.
0:57.1	Wow, so talk us through what it does look like right now in Lahina.
1:01.1	Lahina, of course, is located on the island of Maui, the population, around 13,000, describe
1:08.0	what this community physically looks like right now.
1:11.6	So the island of Maui actually kind of looks like a kind of a fish if the head of the fish
1:16.7	is pointed east, and Lahina is on that smaller tail side shape of the island on the west
1:23.4	side.
1:24.4	And that entire section of the island has been scorched really badly by these wildfires.
1:30.8	It's very dry on the island right now.
1:33.4	And the town of Lahina, which is a very densely packed town on that western edge, is scorched
1:39.9	all through the entire town.
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