What Really Happened in Maui?

He ended up combining his on-location interview with another extended research trip to Maui.

His initial intuition about the Lahaina disaster was confirmed beyond his worst suspicions, with his story an expression of the following themes:

• Federal and state governments consistently failed to do daily managerial work because such work did NOT benefit the special interests that drive policy.
• With unlimited debt financing always (eventually) made available for state-contracted emergency response and/or cleanup, emergencies always turn out to be bonanzas for players and stakeholders who are well-positioned to exploit them.
• Federal and state agencies are now a striking mixture of corruption and incompetence in equal measure. In a corrupt system, incompetence that amplifies disasters is rewarded by greater sums of state funds allocated for the response. In the case of the Lahaina fire, the cleanup is proving to be a bonanza, with billions being shoveled to contractors who are excavating, testing, and hauling away the ash and soil.
• Similar perverse incentives are at play in state responses to financial crises, emerging infectious diseases, and wars. Proper management of public affairs requires skill and diligence, but there is no money in conscientious management for special interests and industries. The payoff—i.e., bailouts, pandemic countermeasures, weapons, and billions of “aid”—comes with the catastrophe.

Be sure to watch Blaze’s brief documentary below, which is no longer behind a paywall, and share it with your friends who want to know more about the reality of the situation.

For those interested in more detail numerous article links are provided below the video.

Various articles, arranged from the oldest to the newest, provide further details about the events surrounding the firestorm as they unfolded:

1. After devastating the fires on Maui, lefties jump right in with “climate change” canards – Some characters are yawping the stupidest, most unhelpful, knee-jerk explanations of a disaster they cannot possibly know the cause of, such as these.
2. The emergency siren system in Maui, Hawaii failed to go off as the devastating fire approached, leaving residents with “no warning” – The Hawaii Emergency Services Administration revealed that the sirens failed to alert residents
3. JD Rucker: Here Are a Couple of Things That Make You Go “Hmmm” About the Recent Maui Fires – Conspiracy theories have been popping up since none of it makes sense – Something strange seems to be afoot
4. Joe Biden Has Heartless Two-Word Response When Asked About Death Toll in Devastating Maui Fires – “No Comment” – Before returning to his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach
5. Biden Offers Maui Fire Survivors A “One-Time” Pittance The Same Day $200 Million Is Announced for Ukraine – One group is getting individual “one-time” payouts of a whopping $700 While the other group is getting $200 million
6. Hawaii Governor Josh Green Is A Puppet for the United Nations – The Governor doubled down on a commitment to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals just one month before Maui fires
7. Biden’s Maui Disaster Response – Neither he nor Kamala Harris visited the area – Then he went on vacation – Upon returning and asked about the scope of the disaster by a reporter, he responded “No comment”
8. The WH announced that President Joe Biden will visit Maui after former Donald Trump criticized him for smiling and saying, “No comment,” when asked about the rising death toll from the wildfires there last week
9. A State official refused to release water to fight the Lahaina fire until too late – “DLNR’s deputy director for water resource management, initially balked at West Maui Land Co.’s requests for additional water, why?” 
10. It Was Not Climate Change: Downed Power Lines Are A Likely Cause of Deadly Hawaii Fires – Videos put scrutiny on downed power lines as a possible cause of deadly Maui wildfires
11. Biden finally says he will visit Maui, but first, he needs a six-day Lake Tahoe vacation – Joe goes on vacation, faithfully, — every single time there is some sort of major catastrophe
12. Numerous residents of Maui would prefer that Joe Biden not bother visiting the island – “I don’t want him here,” Lahaina resident Jay Awan said. “He’s just coming to Maui to look good in front of the cameras”
13. The head of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency does not regret refraining from activating the emergency sirens  – Herman Andaya argued Wednesday that the sirens are generally intended for other purposes
14. Environmentalists Blocked The Release of Water Needed to Fight The Maui Fires – Global warming doesn’t cause natural disasters, environmentalists such as these cause natural disasters
15. Maui Emergency Management Agency Chief Herman Andaya resigned a day after defending his decision not to activate the island-wide alarm system during catastrophic wildfires that swept across the Hawaiian island of Maui
16. The Hawaii official who has been accused of withholding water from firefighters during a critical point in the Maui wildfire was previously named a “leader” by the Obama Foundation in 2019
17. Dr. Joseph Mercola: What Caused the Deadly Maui Fires? – Four years ago an environmental management expert, warned that allowing non-native, highly flammable grassland savannas to take over native ecosystems was risky…
18. A Drone Was Remotely Grounded Upon Nearing The Maui Fires Origin – The Pilot Quickly Visited by Government Officials – Why the secrecy in this area? Liability? Accountability? Why no clarity on the origins/cause of the fire?
19. More than 100 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers are staying in five-star hotels in Maui on the taxpayers’ dime while thousands of people are homeless due to the wildfires
20. John Daniel Davidson: The Media Doesn’t Care About The Maui Fires Or Biden’s Heartless “Katrina Moment” – They aren’t giving Biden the “Katrina treatment” they gave George W. Bush in 2005 because they protect their own
21. Joe Biden’s Visit to Maui Did More Harm Than Good – Kristen Goodwin, a Hawaii resident, and a former teacher put it bluntly, saying, “I’m not voting for him again, that’s for sure – I’ll vote for Trump. I will never vote for him again.”
22. There are still 850 people missing from the Maui wildfires, but a new report from the Hawaii State Department of Education shows that there are more than 2,000 children who are unaccounted for in the public school system
23. FEMA sent out letters to first responders and relief workers in Maui demanding that they stop posting images and videos of the charred disaster area on social media citing “cultural sensitivity”
24. NR: Maui: Climate Change or Cover-Up? – It has been all but established the fire that consumed Maui likely began due to a live power line snapping during a high-wind event, collapsing into some dry brush that was not cleared
25. Hawaiian Electric: “Our power lines were de-energized for more than six hours in Lahaina when the “Afternoon Fire” broke out on Aug. 8 – “We were surprised and disappointed that the County of Maui rushed to court before completing its investigation”
26. Why Did the Maui Police Department Block The Exits from Lahaina? – Multiple witnesses state that the patrol officers made seemingly credible statements that they did not know the rationale for the order to block off this street
27. Through their actions and inactions, Hawaiian bureaucrats helped clear the land in Maui – It’s easy for cynical, suspicious minds to believe that the government’s demonstrated monumental incompetence wasn’t accidental
28. The Maui Fires In Lahaina, What’s Up? – Geoff Cygnus has taken a special interest in the recent Maui fires of great public interest since people are starting to wonder about the many irregularities surrounding this disaster
29. Climate Change Did Not Cause The Devastation In Maui – Democrats instantly leaped upon the climate change bandwagon, but facts, as opposed to zealot-driven theory, show otherwise
30. Representative Russell: “I have all kinds of questions about the federal government’s response, or lack thereof, to the deadly Maui wildfires” – “I’ve never seen that level of, really cover-up, ever in my entire life of seeing hurricanes”
31. Maui’s Herculean Task – The island faces economic collapse. Seventy percent of its economy is linked to tourism, and property taxes from tourism-linked enterprises make up 60 percent of the County of Maui’s revenues. Now tourism has been brought down to pandemic-era levels
32. Thinker: Hawaii Governor Green lies about Lahaina deaths – He keeps telling the media that there were 99 deaths, but that is a lie – A Maui resident told me that the number is much higher based on all the trucks he saw transporting bodies – In a published list of the dead, only three children are named, so Where are the other 252 children?…