Just posting this Cremola roundup on the Maui fires. Lots of info here, may overlap with above material.
You can catch it all here for a few hours on this temporary link
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/08/19/maui-wildfires.aspx
Theres a permanent link to a pdf file.
This latter link doesn’t have the embedded videos. These are given below (along with the summary). You can locate the videos from here and read the text on the pdf link.
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What Caused the Deadly Maui Fires?
What the media won’t tell you about the Maui fires
Story at-a-glance
- August 8, 2023, wildfires broke out in the western part of Maui, burning down an estimated 2,000 acres, including the historical port town of Lahaina, where most of the buildings were destroyed, including many of the homes of its 13,000 residents, many of whom are indigenous and have lived there for generations
- The fire was fueled by hurricane-strength winds of 60 to 90 mph from Hurricane Dora, which passed some 500 miles south of Hawaii
- Four years ago, Clay Trauernicht, an environmental management expert, warned that allowing nonnative, highly flammable grassland savannas take over native ecosystems was worsening the risk of devastating wildfires
- As Hurricane Dora was approaching, local news predicted the risk of fire would be high due to downed powerlines, dry brush and low humidity. Maui residents are now suing the power company for keeping “powerlines energized during forecasted high fire danger conditions”
- Some people, including Maui residents, suspect a directed energy weapon was used to set Lahaina ablaze to facilitate a land grab. Residents have long resisted offers to sell their land, and private land developers are already making offers to purchase their scorched properties
Videos:
"Clay Trauernicht, a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an environmental management expert, warned about this in a 2019 letter to the editor of The Maui News, stating, "The fuels — all that grass — is the one thing that we can directly change to reduce the fire risk."10
Ed Dowd updates Robert F. Kennedy Jr . on the wild fires in Maui.
Pdf https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/August/PDF/maui-wildfires-pdf.pdf
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also highlighted the role that poor land management may have played in this catastrophe. In an August 14, 2023, Substack article, Kennedy wrote:11
"Specific measures that can limit the destructiveness of wildfires, tropical fire specialists say, include building firebreaks, reintroducing fire-resistant vegetation, and allowing livestock to keep grasses at a manageable level. Right now, in short, Maui needs a massive land restoration program …
Healthy ecosystems regulate the flood-drought cycle and mitigate wildfires. They draw down carbon, too. Restoring the land is an achievable goal that will have an immediate effect on wildfires, in contrast to long-term efforts to address climate change, a contributing factor but not the primary cause of these fires."
In the video above, Kennedy interviews Maui resident Ed Dowd about the situation. Yet another relatively common but rarely acknowledged cause of wildfires is poorly maintained power company equipment and/or downed or damaged powerlines.
In this case, as Hurricane Dora made its approach, local news predicted the risk of fire would be high due to downed powerlines, dry brush and low humidity, and Maui residents are now suing the power company for keeping "powerlines energized during forecasted high fire danger conditions."12
In 2022, Hawaii Electric, which services Maui, proposed a detailed wildfire mitigation plan with a price tag of $2.5 million,13 but according to investigative journalist Lee Fang,14 “the state utility commission dragged its feet” when it came to implementation.
Maui Set to Become a ‘Smart Island’?
SMART City = Maui (1hr 31m)
Hawaii also has plans to implement “digital artificial intelligence government.” That’s the topic of the September 2023 Hawaii Digital Government Summit.27
Video: JUMPSmartMaui https://youtu.be/gWh1J5iPDfI (46s. Commercial, Hitachi)
Was Fire Set to Facilitate a Land Grab?
video: BREAKING! Maui Fires & WEF plan for Hawaii | Redacted with Clayton Morris (2.09.04)
Other Coincidences and Anomalies
Video: Were Directed Energy Weapons used in Maui? Let’s look at what we can prove
https://youtu.be/Cn9EM9U60lM (1.10.35)
Sources and References
- 1 NPR August 9, 2023
- 2 AP News August 15, 2023
- 3, 29 USA Today August 15, 2023
- 4 Hawaii News Now January 13, 2023
- 5, 6 AP August 15, 2023
- 7 The Hill August 14, 2023
- 8 ABC News August 14, 2023
- 9 Climate.gov December 15, 2016
- 10 Maui News February 3, 2019
- 11 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Substack August 14, 2023
- 12 Twitter Kanekoa the Great August 13, 2023
- 13 Hawaiian Electric
- 14 Twitter Lee Fang August 14, 2023
- 15 Dianne Marshall Report August 13, 2023
- 16 Twitter Robin Monotti August 14, 2023
- 17 Americas Best Pics Smart City Conference
- 18 Reddit August 13, 2023
- 19, 27 Hawaii Digital Government Summit 2023
- 20 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2023
- 21 Hicss.hawaii.edu
- 22 HICSS-56 January 3-6, 2023 Best Papers
- 23 Energy.hawaii.gov Clean Energy Initiative
- 24 Weforum August 20, 2018
- 25 Hitachi JUMPSmartMaui Project
- 26 NEDO Smart Community Case Study
- 28 Twitter Efrat Fenigson August 14, 2023
- 30 Reuters August 11, 2023
- 31 Maui Now July 16, 2023
- 32 LinkedIn Dr. Kathy J. Forti August 12, 2023
- 33, 36 Twitter Last American Vagabond August 12, 2023
- 34 The Last American Vagabond August 12, 2023
- 35 Motherboard June 1, 2023
- 37 YouTube Really Graceful 4:37
- 38 The Piping Mart Does Steel Melt in Fire?