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Fire Safety Research Institute investigator Derek Alkonis says the investigation gives a forensic study into the fires. He said the next two reports are expected to give potentially incriminating evidence.
More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui town, officials are still trying to
Hawaii's electric utility did not immediately respond to the first alerts of its power lines breaking before the deadly Maui fire last August, according to a new timeline report by the Hawaii attorney general's office, which noted lapses by multiple agencies in responding to what would become the deadliest fire in U.S. history.
Hawaiian Electric did not send a representative to check on fallen power equipment until hours after fire officials alerted the utility, the report says.
A new report shows that the head of Maui's emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island as wildfires ripped across the island last August.