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Reading the article this seems perfectly fine. "DLNR delayed releasing water requested by West Maui Land Co. to help prevent the spread of fire, sources famili
by threeseed 3y ago
Reading the article this seems perfectly fine.
"DLNR delayed releasing water requested by West Maui Land Co. to help prevent the spread of fire, sources familiar with the situation said."
The priority should be to stop the spread of fire not prevent houses being burned down.
- baggy_trough 3y agoNormally one wants to stop the spread of fire to prevent houses from being burned down.
- threeseed 3y agoNo. The priority is to save lives. Using water to help isolate an area that is used for evacuation is much more important than saving a few houses which are likely to be insured and can be simply rebuilt.
- baggy_trough 3y agoThey go together usually.
- dave78 3y agoYour comment seems woefully out of touch given what happened in Hawaii. Water was not denied because "saving lives was more important than saving houses". ~1000 people burned to death and the fire department requested more water to help fight the fire and they were put off for 5 hours, by which time the pipes that could transport the water were ruined.
- wunderland 3y agoHas it really killed that many people? I thought it was only 100+ but maybe the nearly 900 missing person are presumed dead now?
- dave78 3y agoI guess I'm making an assumption that the 850 or so missing people are dead. I don't know that, but unfortunately it seems like a safe assumption. Reporters who have managed to get near the affected area are saying that there are dead bodies lining the streets. I truly hope my assumption is wrong and that those 800 people are safe, but it just doesn't seem likely to me given what we know.
- afgrant 3y agoHouses are tightly coupled to lives. Even if you escape the house, you might not survive the smoke inhalation from the surrounding trees.
- verteu 3y agoI believe it should be parsed as: "DLNR delayed releasing water (requested by West Maui Land Co. to help prevent the spread of fire)" not "(DLNR delayed releasing water requested by West Maui Land Co.) to help prevent the spread of fire"
- vilhelm_s 3y agoI believe the meaning is that the land company wanted water to prevent the spread of fire, and the DLNR delayed. From the rest of the article, the delay was because farms downstream had the right to use the water for agriculture.
- keneda7 3y agoYour comment is a little confusing to me. >>The priority should be to stop the spread of fire not prevent houses being burned down. This would imply you think DLNR should have released the water the West Maui Land Co. as they were using it to "help prevent the spread of fire" (direct quote from your quote). Yet you say at the beginning. >>Reading the article this seems perfectly fine. Do you believe DLNR acted appropriately by not releasing the water which increased the spread of fire or do you believe DLNR should have released the water to help stop the spread of fire?