Towering flames spread to wind-whipped palm trees while consuming a building between Wainee Street and Front Street at the height of the fire on Aug. 8 in Lahaina. On Wednesday, the head of the ...

The state will conduct its first monthly test of 2025 of its statewide all-hazard outdoor warning siren system at 11:45 a.m.

Eighty outdoor sirens are in Maui alone. The head of the state's emergency management agency, Adam Weintraub, told the Associated Press this week that records do not suggest that those sirens were ...

a day after defending his qualifications for the job and the decision not to sound the outdoor sirens during the Lahaina fire. The Maui News file photo Maui County’s top emergency official ...

Emergency evacuation alerts have gone off the rails, pinging people seemingly at random. Experts say that such errors can sow ...

Amidst the chaos, the Maui Emergency Management Agency took a step that would later be scrutinized. They did not sound the island’s network of sirens, and instead sent a text alert that few ...

It examines how changes to the climate and landscape have made Maui increasingly vulnerable ... including a choice not to activate emergency sirens — and raises difficult questions about who ...

Jan. 7, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. The deadliest American wildfire in a century, and the missed warnings that made it so unstoppable. An investigation of its causes, the ...

As the death toll rose to 111 on Wednesday, the head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency defended not sounding sirens as flames raged. Hawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor ...

As the death toll rose to 111 on Wednesday, the head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency defended not sounding sirens during the fire. Hawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor ...

Maui’s emergency-management chief resigned in August, citing health reasons. His departure comes amid mounting scrutiny of the response to the wildfire that destroyed much of the coastal town of ...

Maui County’s Emergency Operations Center sign-in sheet ... Who was present when the decision to or not to activate sirens or other warning systems? Who was making decisions about what resources ...