Face the Nation: Josh Green

Interview

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We will get to the bottom of exactly how the fire started, how our emergency procedures and protocols need to be strengthened, and how we can improve our defenses.

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Thank you, Margaret.

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More than 1,000 are unaccounted for, about 1,050. It will take several weeks still.

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That is possible. And that's -- that's what we're sharing here internally, that it's possible that there will be many children.

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In some cases, they're returning later this week.

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We assess every siren across the state on the 1st of the month. And then we ask people to update them and fix them to their abilities.

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Well, let's be real world. Climate change is here. We are in the midst of it with a hotter planet and fiercer storms.

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And you asked the question. I'm coming back to it right now. Do I wish those sirens went off? Of course I do. And I think that the answer that the -- the emergency administrator for Maui who has resigned said was, of course, utterly unsatisfactory to the world.

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We worry about a lot of our state.

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Oahu has three-quarters of the population of the state.

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They've just been constantly working, and everyone has stepped up.

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I don't know personally whether or not the -- the power lines were the -- the primary reason the fire occurred.

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...a comprehensive review, I think, two days into this, which is very atypical. Normally, these kinds of investigations come months or -- or more later.

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But we have to ask that question. We have to ask the question on every level of how any one city, county, state could have done better and the private sector.

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And the fire, I'm now told, was as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It just destroyed everything.

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It's just to explain what the world should prepare for.

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Yes, it did.

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And -- but when you have fire that moved more than a mile a minute -- and what happened, I'm told by some of the survivors, they were at the initial fire. It was put out sometime late in the afternoon in Lahaina.

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When they left, the fire started up again.

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which were that strong, swept it out, it just destroyed everything.

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Thank you. Thank you for your love and support. We appreciate it.

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