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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    1 year ago

    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.

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      Willing to bet they added some useless checks and confirmations to systems like this after the nuke warning oopsie-daisie couple years back