Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires::Some Maui residents are questioning the effectiveness of the emergency warning system employed as the wildfires spread rapidly across Lahaina and other parts on Tuesday. Hawaii’s attorney general is leading a review of the emergency response.
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It is always really interesting when a system like that fails, and Im curious to see what they come up with as an explanation for why.
The siren system was just not used, I didn’t see any reports that it failed.
Already days ago right after the fire, it was reported the fire services communicated to the public they had the fire under control. So it makes sense to not use the emergency siren system in such a case. But then suddenly - according to media and fire fighter reports - the fire started spreading super fast and it was no longer under control. But then it was too late for many.
“Sorry bro, better luck next time”
Willing to bet they added some useless checks and confirmations to systems like this after the nuke warning oopsie-daisie couple years back
How is a system with 400 alarms the largest in the world? I couldn’t find the numbers for Germany but in Austria there are over 8000 sirens. Does anyone know more about that?
I did some research: It seems Hawaii boasts they hve the largest network of siren Alarms in the world. That cannot be true, even if you consider sirens per area. Hawaii has about one siren per 70(!!) square kilometer. Austria has about one siren per 10 square kilometer. European countries have extensive networks of warning sirens. Other examples are Switzerland with a siren per 9.8 sqkm (8200 total) and the Netherlands with one siren per 10.9 sqkm (3800 in total). I really don’t know which numbers would suggest that Hawaii has the largest system of Sirens in the world. If anything, the number of sirens seems excessively small. Also, for any Americans wondering: Air raid sirens in European countries trigger for natural disaster and other dangers to citizens too (like large fires)
Even Denmark has over 1000 sirens for warnings.
Maybe its considering the size of the landmass, Maui is about 1.5 times bigger than Lolland.
Maybe it’s referring to an early warning system specifically for fires?
I think its density. Maui is tiny.
The claim in the article has a link to the state’s site, where it actually says:
Hawaiʻi has the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world.
“Single integrated” is probably key here.
What does that even mean? I read the source, too, but I honestly don’t understand this sentence.
