Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires
MaybeItWorks @ MaybeItWorks @sh.itjust.works Posts 1Comments 94Joined 2 yr. ago
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Yes, this is what gets me too. If they had sounded the sirens, people are taught to take a certain action. That action (get to higher ground) would have caused a different type of confusion. So I can understand that some government employees sat there discussing it and ruled it out because the action they needed people to take, was not going to happen with the siren. I really don’t know what they would have told me people to do. Everything was moving so fast that giving coordinated evacuation instructions would have been damn near impossible. I don’t think the warning systems really would have done much, when you think through it.