No one activated Hawaii’s extensive network of outdoor emergency alarms, a spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency tells Scripps News.
The deadly wildfires in Hawaii have become the latest disaster identified by the Scripps News investigative team in which outdoor emergency sirens designed to warn people in imminent danger never sounded.
"The immediate priority is that medical needs are met, and that we’re able to conduct search and rescue," Weintraub said during a telephone interview Monday. There are more than 400 sirens across the state, many installed after the 2011 tsunami in Japan. While the system was designed primarily for tsunamis, they are for use in all emergencies including wildfires, flooding and volcanic eruptions. A Scripps News analysis comparing siren locations around Lahaina to a map of fire damage shows the sirens should have been audible in most of the burned area, at least to people who were outside.
A Scripps News investigation in May found many of the nation's outdoor sirens aren't properly maintained and no longer work.
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