Herman Andaya, Maui’s emergency chief, resigned a day after defending his decision not to deploy public siren systems as wildfires raged across the Hawaii island.
a review into the decision-making and policies leading up to, during and after the wildfires. The investigation is expected to include analyzing decisions not to sound sirens and could take months to complete, she said. The probe will be undertaken by “a third-party private organization with experience in emergency management” to ensure it is “an impartial, independent review,” she added in aEarlier this week, Rep. Jill N.
“You might think it’s a tsunami, by the way, which is our first instinct. You would run toward land, which in this case would be toward fire,” the congresswoman told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” on Sunday.
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