I’m not sure this qualifies as man-made in the religious sense of climate change, but men made the powerlines that some locals captured on video—sparking, popping, followed by fire, which the high winds then took for a devastating ride.
(Maui News/AP) “I heard ‘buzz, buzz,’ “ the 49-year-old resort worker recounted. “It was almost like somebody lit a firework. It just ran straight up the hill to a bigger pile of grass, and then, with that high wind, that fire was blazing.”
Treu’s video and others captured the early moments of what would become the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Now the footage has emerged as key evidence pointing to fallen utility lines as the possible cause. Hawaiian Electric Co. faces criticism for not shutting off the power amid high wind warnings and keeping it on even as dozens of poles began to topple.
It’s beginning to sound a bit like California’s Camp Fire.
(Bloomberg) It could take weeks or months to determine the cause of the blaze that destroyed the seaside Hawaiian town of Lahaina, one of the deadliest wildfires in US history. But attention is already focusing on whether power lines owned by Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. played a role, with the stock plunging more than 40% since the fire began. While many things could have provided the initial spark for the flames, which were fanned by high winds, electrical lines have a tragic history of triggering fires during wind storms.
The story is getting around, but back to Maui News.
A class-action lawsuit has already been filed seeking to hold the company responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people. The suit cites the utility’s own documents showing it was aware that preemptive power shutoffs such as those used in California were an effective strategy to prevent wildfires but never adopted them.
This is starting to sound a lot like the Camp Fire.
When Governor Moonbeam (Brown) made stupid claims that the wildfires ravaging his state, yet again, were due to the “Climate Change” hoax, President Trump shot back an incendiary and burningly accurate tweet, igniting his own firestorm. …
First, we heard from Mercury News that the point of origin for the “Camp” fire was a remote road where fallen power lines had sparked a blaze that was fanned by 35mph “Santa Ana” winds into the rapidly spreading inferno, which consumed the small town of Paradise, CA, and its surroundings, …
Maui’s Fire Department then allegedly mishandled the fire allowing it to get worse. So, yes, ‘Men’ were involved, but Climate Change had nothing to do with it, and that’s a problem. Pursuing lawsuits for wrongdoing is a greater good than pretending someone’s SUV is Skokie is to blame. They’ll still lay that blame, but it won’t be able to keep its head above the rising waters of litigation.
HT | Epoch Times
