Who Failed Hawaii?
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Hawaii is in flames, with the death toll from fires on Maui exceeding 100. Now, the search for where the failure—or multiple failures—occurred begins.
Guest: Brianna Sacks, reporter covering climate change and extreme weather for the Washington Post.
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| 1:04.9 | Brianna Sex of the Washington Post has gotten used to covering climate disasters, but even |
| 1:09.8 | she's been shocked by what's happened on Maui over the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:14.8 | Most everyone, even emergency preparedness and disaster experts I talked to, didn't |
| 1:20.9 | think it would be this bad. |
| 1:25.7 | Just a few days ago, Brianna was keeping an eye on Maui by monitoring fire Twitter, digitally |
| 1:31.5 | listening in, as emergency responders worried about wind speeds and drought conditions. |
| 1:36.8 | And then we woke up, and the death toll went from six to 36, and I was on a plane. |
| 1:42.5 | So I was totally caught off guard. |
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