Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Re: First Maui victims were loaded into ambulances at least 12 hours before state was notified of deaths
1 view
Skip to first unread message
byte detective
Sep 4, 2023, 2:17:44 AM9/4/23
to
On 07 Jun 2023, DeSantis The Pedo <now...@protonmail.com> posted some
news:u5qe1r$16f3s$2...@dont-email.me:
> These were Obama Democrats all the way. Totally ignorant and trying
> to hide what happened.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Paramedics started picking up patients in
Lahaina with fire-related injuries a little after 3. p.m. on Aug. 8 — at
least 12 hours before the county notified key state leaders people had
died in the disaster, HNN Investigates has confirmed.
The information offers further insight into what was happening behind
the fire line the day Lahaina burned — and what emergency officials did
or didn’t know as they sought to respond.
Speedy Bailey, regional director in Hawaii for American Medical
Response, says calls for help in Lahaina were nonstop from 4 p.m. until
about midnight. “Ambulances were working in and amongst moving flames
and high gusts of winds, in extreme danger,” Bailey said.
For at least nine hours, Maui’s EMS crews repeatedly crossed fire lines
to treat the wounded who were unable to escape on their own. “Fire crews
and police crews were bringing patients to triage points where
ambulances could take patients to Maui Memorial (Medical Center),”
Bailey said.
Maui’s ambulance chief says in addition to the island’s nine ambulances,
two more had been placed on standby that day ahead of wind warnings
forecast in advance of Hurricane Dora passing south of the state. He
says those rigs were mobilized about 3 p.m. on Aug. 8.
Special Section: Maui Wildfires
“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this, to be frank,” Bailey
said. “Just the conditions that they had to deal with.” He added that
paramedics and EMTs worked in the face of fast-moving flames that
changed direction without warning and smoke so thick it blacked out the
sun.
“Communications were challenged. Cell phones down. Radio complications,”
he said.
As for the people being pulled out of the disaster zone, “we saw some
burn patients that we don’t see that kind of condition generally. There
were multiple times when ambulances were transporting two patients, at
least, in an ambulance,” Bailey said.
He says medics rushed a total 32 people to the hospital with
fire-related injuries. Eight were subsequently airlifted to Oahu and at
least one has died.
Officials at Maui Memorial Medical Center told Hawaii News Now that Maui
County’s Emergency Management Agency is in charge of coordinating
communication between agencies.
“When one responding agency learns of a catastrophic event, it is the
protocol to notify MEMA in order to activate any other needed agencies
and resources to respond,” the hospital said.
When asked who made that notification, a spokesperson responded that the
hospital’s emergency management team “had already been in constant
communication with the county since earlier that morning about the
upcountry fire situation.”
The disconnect appears to have been between the county and the state.
HNN Investigates has confirmed that critical information about injuries
and fatalities in the disaster didn’t make it to the director of the
state’s emergency management agency until the day after Lahaina was
leveled. “I thought everyone had gotten out safely. It wasn’t until
probably the next day I started hearing about fatalities,” Maj. Gen.
Kenneth Hara told HNN on Aug. 23.
Meanwhile, the Bissen administration still won’t say who was calling the
shots that day while the head of Maui’s emergency Management Agency was
off island attending a FEMA conference.
Looking back, Bailey says he commends his ambulance crews, along with
the other first responders who risked their lives. He says they did
everything they could. “They don’t like to be called heroes,” Bailey
said. “But they were heroic. And they did awesome, amazing work.”
While none of the ambulance crews working were hurt on-duty, one of
their team members is still among the missing. Several others lost their
homes.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/08/29/first-wildfire-victims-were-load
ed-into-ambulances-12-hours-before-state-was-notified-casualties/
news:u5qe1r$16f3s$2...@dont-email.me:
> These were Obama Democrats all the way. Totally ignorant and trying
> to hide what happened.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Paramedics started picking up patients in
Lahaina with fire-related injuries a little after 3. p.m. on Aug. 8 — at
least 12 hours before the county notified key state leaders people had
died in the disaster, HNN Investigates has confirmed.
The information offers further insight into what was happening behind
the fire line the day Lahaina burned — and what emergency officials did
or didn’t know as they sought to respond.
Speedy Bailey, regional director in Hawaii for American Medical
Response, says calls for help in Lahaina were nonstop from 4 p.m. until
about midnight. “Ambulances were working in and amongst moving flames
and high gusts of winds, in extreme danger,” Bailey said.
For at least nine hours, Maui’s EMS crews repeatedly crossed fire lines
to treat the wounded who were unable to escape on their own. “Fire crews
and police crews were bringing patients to triage points where
ambulances could take patients to Maui Memorial (Medical Center),”
Bailey said.
Maui’s ambulance chief says in addition to the island’s nine ambulances,
two more had been placed on standby that day ahead of wind warnings
forecast in advance of Hurricane Dora passing south of the state. He
says those rigs were mobilized about 3 p.m. on Aug. 8.
Special Section: Maui Wildfires
“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this, to be frank,” Bailey
said. “Just the conditions that they had to deal with.” He added that
paramedics and EMTs worked in the face of fast-moving flames that
changed direction without warning and smoke so thick it blacked out the
sun.
“Communications were challenged. Cell phones down. Radio complications,”
he said.
As for the people being pulled out of the disaster zone, “we saw some
burn patients that we don’t see that kind of condition generally. There
were multiple times when ambulances were transporting two patients, at
least, in an ambulance,” Bailey said.
He says medics rushed a total 32 people to the hospital with
fire-related injuries. Eight were subsequently airlifted to Oahu and at
least one has died.
Officials at Maui Memorial Medical Center told Hawaii News Now that Maui
County’s Emergency Management Agency is in charge of coordinating
communication between agencies.
“When one responding agency learns of a catastrophic event, it is the
protocol to notify MEMA in order to activate any other needed agencies
and resources to respond,” the hospital said.
When asked who made that notification, a spokesperson responded that the
hospital’s emergency management team “had already been in constant
communication with the county since earlier that morning about the
upcountry fire situation.”
The disconnect appears to have been between the county and the state.
HNN Investigates has confirmed that critical information about injuries
and fatalities in the disaster didn’t make it to the director of the
state’s emergency management agency until the day after Lahaina was
leveled. “I thought everyone had gotten out safely. It wasn’t until
probably the next day I started hearing about fatalities,” Maj. Gen.
Kenneth Hara told HNN on Aug. 23.
Meanwhile, the Bissen administration still won’t say who was calling the
shots that day while the head of Maui’s emergency Management Agency was
off island attending a FEMA conference.
Looking back, Bailey says he commends his ambulance crews, along with
the other first responders who risked their lives. He says they did
everything they could. “They don’t like to be called heroes,” Bailey
said. “But they were heroic. And they did awesome, amazing work.”
While none of the ambulance crews working were hurt on-duty, one of
their team members is still among the missing. Several others lost their
homes.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/08/29/first-wildfire-victims-were-load
ed-into-ambulances-12-hours-before-state-was-notified-casualties/
0 new messages