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Watch: Maui official who allegedly fumbled in the wildfire practices faith-based water management

M. Kaleo Manuel Screencap

We have been covering the horrible wildfire in Maui and its aftermath. We are horrified to see our fellow Americans die this way and we pray for everyone involved or impacted.

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Now we get word that maybe the wildfire could have been controlled … if Deputy Director M. Kaleo Manuel of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management had essentially allocated the water the firefighters needed:

From the article:

On the day after the fire, the West Maui Land Co. Inc. sent a letter to Deputy Director M. Kaleo Manuel of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, or CWRM, describing the events and communication problems that resulted in delaying the diversion of streams to fill reservoirs with water being made available to fight the fire….

According to the letter, although the initial fire was contained at 9 a.m., there were reports of fallen power lines, fierce winds, outages and low reservoir levels, prompting the company to reach out to the commission to request approval to divert more water from streams so it could store as much water as possible for fire control.

Instead of approving the request, CWRM asked the company whether the Maui Fire Department had requested permission to dip into the reservoirs and directed it to first inquire with the downstream user to ensure that his loi and other uses would not be impacted by a temporary reduction of water supply.

Communications were spotty, the letter said, and the company had already tried unsuccessfully to contact the one downstream user.

By around 3:30 p.m., a flare-up had shut down the Lahaina Bypass.

‘At around 6:00 p.m., we received CWRM’s approval to divert more water,’ Tremble wrote. ‘By then, we were unable to reach the siphon release to make the adjustments that would have allowed more water to fill our reservoirs.

‘We watched the devastation unfold around us without the ability to help. We anxiously awaited the morning knowing that we could have made more water available to MFD if our request had been immediately approved,’ he said.

There were reports of the fire moving so quickly and at such temperatures that water was spewing out of melting pipes and depressurizing the lines that also supplied the fire hydrants.

Tremble’s letter said it is unknown whether filling the reservoirs at 1 p.m. would have ultimately made a difference.

But ‘we know that fires spread quickly. We know that we need to act faster during an emergency. We know that the community we serve relies on the water as a defense from spreading fire. We know that we must have water available for MFD before MFD needs it. We know we can do better. We’re all in this together.’

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In short, they needed to have water available in case of a flare up. They didn’t get that water, and there was a flare up. Maybe they could have stopped that flare up with sufficient water, but they didn’t get the chance to find out because of this.

Oh, and M. Kaleo Manuel? As promised, here is video of him explaining that his approach to water-management is essentially faith-based:

Now, to be fair to Manuel, he appears to be talking about his water management philosophy in general, and he is not speaking to what he did during the wildfire. We would guess this was filmed before the fire.

And you never know, maybe he just spews this stuff for political purposes, but when it comes time to do his job, none of these things enter his mind. Still, it is also reasonable to wonder if his faith influenced any potential response, and it is a question that should be asked of him.

Still, this got more than a little dragging:

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Sure, it looks like it is as bad as Katrina, but it's (D)ifferent.

To be fair, its surrounded by ocean water and the water the firefighters wanted to use sounds like fresh water and humans can only drink the latter. We don’t pretend to know what challenges there are in water management in Hawaii.

"NeoCommunism" is a pretty good term.

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Maybe? We admit to being a little out of our depth on this.

*laughs*

It’s a real occupational hazard for our writers.

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