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The Gist

To Sound The Maui Sirens?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Herman Andaya, Maui's emergency chief decided not to sound sirens before the fires scorched Lahaina, which seems like an obvious mistake. But all the officials agreed, to do so would have been a contradiction of policy ... and perhaps a dangerous one. Andaya was pushed out anyway, though he was, to some extent, the author of his own fate. And how much was Barbenheimer Hollywood's salvation? We talk franchise movies and box office with John Campea. And superheroes aren't the only ones failing to deliver the goods. Superconductors—at least room temperature ones—remain works of fiction. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When Fiona started fees fancy flowers, she used a fax machine to get in touch with her suppliers,

0:06.3

her investors and her customers too. But as her business went from 100 customers to 10,000,

0:13.8

she realized it was time to finally embrace modern technology.

0:19.3

fax machines, they kind of like your business current account, just because they were good once

0:24.3

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0:50.0

It's Friday, August 18th, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions, it's the Jistai Mike Pasca.

0:59.6

It's over 100 dead, the casualty count from the Maui fires the highest in the U.S. in the

1:04.8

last 100 years. The reasons are many, but still being investigated, there are drought,

1:09.9

power line, critically low water levels, but also sirens, lack of sirens. At a news conference

1:17.0

a couple days ago, Herman Andeja, Maui's emergency chief, came in for this interrogation from a reporter

1:23.2

for CBS. Do you regret not sounding the sirens? I do not. And the reason why, and so many people said

1:30.0

they could have been saved if they had time to escape, had a siren gone off, they would have known

1:36.6

that there was a crisis emerging. And as we know so many bodies were found in the ground

1:41.6

as the flames started to give me the answer. I want to let him finish his answer.

1:48.0

There's a lot of people. You're talking and letting him start. If you want to talk, come up here.

1:53.6

I'm ready for the answer. Then wait.

1:59.0

The sirens, as I had mentioned, interceding in the tense exchanges you heard there,

2:02.6

was Maui Mayor Richard Bissen, when Andeja was finally asked to give his answer,

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