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“Maui residents who disobeyed barricade survived fires: AP.” — Jeff Childers Covid & Coffee

1. Kewl2 says:

   August 24, 2023 - 9:30 am at 9:30 am

   More bad news for Maui’s fire response emerged yesterday in the form of a Hill story headlined, “Maui residents who disobeyed barricade survived fires: AP.”

   The Hill reported on an AP story, which had reported that the smart people who disobeyed the barricaded road closures during the Maui fires survived, while many, if not most, of those who followed orders and turned around wound up dying horribly in their cars and homes, with no way out.

   As of the time of publication yesterday, the official Maui death count is least 114 people killed. But the Hill added that the FBI is estimating that up to 1,100 more people remain “unaccounted for.”

   Wait. What is the FBI doing there? Investigating crimes? What crimes? The Hill didn’t say.

   Moving on, the AP interviewed residents who disobeyed the barricades, and who provided these harrowing accounts of lifesaving civil disobedience:

   Nate Baird and Courtney Stapleton recounted their experience to the outlet, saying they loaded the car up with their two sons, Baird’s mother and one dog to escape the flames. When they turned south to escape Lahaina, they were met with cones and were told to turn back around to Lahaina, which was already burning.

   But instead of turning around, they swerved past the cones and escaped to a neighboring town.

   Kim Cuevas-Reyes said she survived with her two sons by ignoring orders to turn right onto Front Street, which has now been devastated by the fires. Instead, she turned left and drove in the wrong lane to escape the town.

   “The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” Cuevas-Reyes, 38, told the AP. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.”

   As Reagan said, government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem.

2. Fullgoldcrown says:

   August 24, 2023 - 9:40 am at 9:40 am

   Heads shouls roll over this insanity

3. traderfromhell says:

   August 24, 2023 - 9:46 am at 9:46 am

   Stupid and evil are not mutually exclusive. Most of the people supposedly in charge should hang. Not just this incident. Mistakes happening over and over this can’t be coincidence.

4. Chartsmaster says:

   August 24, 2023 - 9:46 am at 9:46 am

   “Wait. What is the FBI doing there? Investigating crimes? What crimes? The Hill didn’t say.” By now everyone should know the FBI shows up to cover up crimes not investigate them. If it doesn’t fit in with the approved narrative you never hear about what happened. When you find out from alt sources, it gets labelled as Misinformation and conspiracy theories.