Goodbye, Lahaina Post Script
"Officials Warned Years Ago of Lahaina's Wildfire Risk"
By John Leake
It’s being revealed that I wasn’t the only guy who had, for a long time, perceived Lahaina to be a grave risk of fire (as I wrote in my original post, Goodbye, Lahaina). Turns out that a group of researchers called the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization submitted a report in 2014, cataloguing the dangers and proposing measures for mitigating the risk. As Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the nonprofit, told the Wall Street Journal in a report published:
We’ve been hammering this home and it’s just really frustrating and heartbreaking to see that some things could have been done, but we couldn’t find money.
The Wall Street Journal report also points out the following:
In 2020, another report detailing the fire danger created by passing hurricanes was published by researchers at the University of Hawaii and the East West Center, which tied a 20 outbreak of fires on Maui and Oahu to winds from Hurricane Lane.
In 2022, Hawaiian Electric, the state’s main utility, submitted a request for funding from the public utilities commission to help offset the $189.7 million it said it needed to bolster the power grid, including wildfire preventing measures. The request is still being processed.
What strikes me as especially shameful is that, while state and federal agencies did NOT address the grave danger that fire posed to Lahaina, they spent billions on senseless lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, closing beaches and telling everyone, including young athletes, to say at home.
At the same time, Hawaiian state officials ruthlessly suppressed early treatment modalities such as those contained in the McCullough Protocol, even though Hawaii has a high incidence of COVID-19 risk factors such as obesity and high blood sugar. As we document in Chapters 19 and 20 of our book, The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, overweight people suffering from high blood sugar were especially at risk from Interleukin-6 cytokine storm. Doctors Ivette Lozano in Dallas and George Fareed in the Imperial Valley of California documented tremendous success in keeping this cohort out of hospital with the Zelenko Protocol of hydroxychloroquine (an Interleukin-6 modulator), azithromycin, and zinc.
To keep everyone unoccupied at home and unquestioning of the lockdowns and mandates, the state distributed untold sums of money to Maui’s idle workers, including some who’d never held a full time job. My brother knows mothers who received huge unemployment benefits, even though they’d stopped working years earlier and become stay-at-home moms with the births of their first children.
In delivering supplies to Lahaina, my brother spoke with several people on the ground, and they all told him that the final death count is going to be MUCH higher than is being reported in the media. Most of the town’s residents were caught completely by surprise because the initial fire up the hill from town was declared contained at 9:00 a.m. However, another fire in the same area, but closer to town, apparently flared up at 3:30 p.m., and strong winds quickly pushed it into town.
Several downed trees and power poles from Hurricane Dora blocked car ingress and egress, impeding the means of escape by car. Many people got into their cars to flee, but then discovered they couldn’t escape and were burned alive in their vehicles.
Many readers of my two posts on the Lahaina fire have expressed puzzlement about why the fire seemed to spread so fast with such intensity, and a number have wondered if a malevolent actor caused the fire with a Directed Energy Weapon. To understand precisely what happened, we will need a thorough and transparent investigation. The state may be reluctant to perform and publish a thorough and transparent investigation because it will almost certainly raise questions about why more wasn't done to prevent the fire. It's a plausible hypothesis that there were multiple points of ignition caused by downed power lines that arced onto vegetation. However, this raises the question of why power wasn't quickly turned off. One thing that many people struggle to comprehend is how FAST fire can move in a high wind, with embers blowing over 40 MPH into fresh sources of fuel such as kiawe and ironwood pine trees, which will burn with tremendous heat. There was also a tremendous amount of gasoline in the hundreds of cars parked in Lahaina and boats moored in the marina. Norman Maclean wrote a book titled "Young Men and Fire" in which he documents how some young fire-fighters in Montana were killed by a fire that moved against them with shocking speed. Rising heat creates a low pressure, which draws in more air. As I mentioned in my original post, I've been visiting Lahaina for many years, and I've often gotten the impression that there were few safeguards in place to protect the town if a fire broke out during the dry and WINDY season. WIND creates a bellows effect, which greatly increases the rate of combustion. Many thanks for reading. JOHN LEAKE
It wasn’t a “natural” disaster. It was a planned attack to gain prime real estate and move us towards a global reset. #dew