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A hydrant on Division Street didn't have enough pressure or yield enough water for firefighters last month. Now the town is looking into it.
Lives, the finger pointing of what went wrong continues including why fire crews ran out of water finding countless dry hydrants. >> there has been a great deal of water conflict on maui for many years. people have been fighting against the release of waters to fight fires. >> reporter: that includes state water commission deputy director manuel, seen here last year talking about how water must be revered. >> let's let water connect us and not divide us. we can share it but it requires true conversations about equity. >> reporter: the company which owns land in lahaina claims manuel denied an ...
Firefighters who lost their homes battling these flames. they say when they checked those fire hydrants, the water pressure was either low or gone, ana. >> and i'm looking at these images of just the level of destruction there, and you've been talking to people who are staying in shelters. we're now more than a week since the fire hit, this death toll around 111 people at last check. where do the search efforts stand? >> yeah, they're still searching the rubble. that could take several weeks, and some of the remains are so hard to find because these bodies are so badly burned. they still may b...
Which owns land in lahaina claims manuel denied an emergency request to move more water from streams into reservoirs. that supply city water, including fire hydrants. manuel told them they first had to clear it with native hawaiian farmers. in a letter the company says by the time they got that approval, it was too late. writing, quote: no one is happy there was water in the streams while our homes, our businesses, our lands and our lives were reduced to ash. manuel has since been reassigned. >> afraid that people would have gone -- >> maui's controversial head of emergency management herman m...
Complicated land and water rights. but the thing is, there is a big disconnect on the ground. this place is prone to wild fire. everything everyone knows there's a wildfire every year, but officials don't think of wildfires. they're dialed in for hurricane response yet they did not deploy their hurricane sirens to warn residents about this incoming danger. they're under immense scrutiny for that. the grassland is the big problem. there's a lot of issues with plantation lands shutting down, developers, who is responsible for managing these lands, taking water away from native hawaiians and dive...