Blaring sirens would have driven locals ‘into the fire,’ Maui official says on August 17, 2023 at 6:23 pm

A Maui County official defended the decision not to use Hawaii’s state-of-the-art siren alert system as a wildfire roared toward Lahaina.

​ A Maui County official defended the decision not to use Hawaii’s state-of-the-art siren alert system as a wildfire roared toward Lahaina.