Kilauea volcano goes to red alert

Kilauea-Volcano

Important Takeaways:

  • Hawaii volcano Kilauea starts erupting after two month pause as officials issue ‘red’ warning
  • The Hawaiian volcano Kilauea, one of the most active of its kind in the world, has erupted after a two-month pause.
  • For the third time this year, glowing orange lava could be seen bursting out of the volcano’s summit at around 3.15am yesterday.
  • It is currently at a safe distance from people and buildings in a national park on the Big Island, according to experts at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory.
  • But the current alert level for those on the island has been increased from ‘warning’ to ‘watch’, according to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
  • Due to gases released by the eruption, volcanic smog is blowing downwind of Kilauea – causing poor air quality and a ‘red’ aviation warning.

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Another blaze is burning in Wahiawa Hawaii: No word yet on how it started

Wahiawa brush fire

Important Takeaways:

  • Firefighters continue to battle brush fire in Wahiawa; just 50% contained
  • Firefighters are continuing to battle a two-alarm brush fire in Wahiawa that’s just 50% contained, HFD told Hawaii News Now Thursday morning.
  • Officials say the fire is approximately 450 acres in size.
  • The Honolulu Fire Department said the 911 call came in around 4 p.m. Tuesday near Hiwi Place. This is in the area near the Kukaniloko Birth Stones — though it’s unclear how close the flames are to the cultural site.
  • HFD says no homes have been threatened at this time, and no area evacuations have been made.
  • Officials added that Lake Wilson is nearby and provides a natural barrier to homes
  • So far, no word yet on what caused the fire. HFD says operations are ongoing.

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Maui’s death toll reaches 111 with more than 1,000 still unaccounted for

Prayer for Hawaii

Important Takeaways:

  • Maui’s death toll reaches 111 as searchers – many coping with their own losses – comb the wildfire zone
  • “No one has ever seen this that is alive today – not this size, not this number, not this volume,” Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said Wednesday. “And we’re not done.”
  • A genetics team will help identify remains, “so that we can make sure that we’re finding who our loved ones are, and that we make the notifications with dignity and honor,” Pelletier said, urging patience.
  • Searches through the burn areas have expanded over the past week, with 40 canines from 15 states deployed, the Hawaii Department of Defense’s Jeff Hickman told CNN.

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Biden’s Hawaii Wildfire response is familiar

Lahaina-Hawaii-Wildfire

Important Takeaways:

  • In President Biden’s response to the devastating wildfires in Maui, we can see the reemergence of a familiar habit: to ignore, dance around and/or gaslight the public about a difficult situation — whether it’s self-inflicted or not — and respond to it only when the critiques become so deafening, they drown out all else. And the coup de grâce: to sing his own praises afterwards.
  • In June 2021, Biden dismissed consumers’ concerns about the early warning signs of inflation. A few months later, Biden said it was the “difficult challenges and complications caused by COVID-19” that were “driving up costs for American families.” Those challenges and complications were in no small part driven by an ill-advised $1.9 trillion spending jubilee Biden championed and signed at the outset of his presidency.
  • Biden’s roadmap for this kind of obfuscation was modeled by his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. He called the evacuation an “extraordinary success.”
  • Last week, Biden promised the federal government would give Maui “everything it needs.” But then Sunday — whilst enjoying one of his many days at the beach — Biden was apparently too busy to comment on the devastation.
  • Don’t be surprised when — not if — he eschews taking responsibility for his callousness in favor of unearned self-congratulations.

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Lack of Governmental Leadership in Maui leaving locals to take care of one another

Important Takeaways:

  • Maui fire survivors describe nighttime looting and rerouted supply drops as they say local leadership botches emergency response
  • Maui residents are becoming increasingly desperate for local leadership to take control of the emergency response to the catastrophic fires that leveled parts of the Hawaiian island and left at least 93 dead.
  • While rescue crews made their way across the island with water, food, and first aid, locals told Insider supply drops were being rerouted and anguished residents were taking matters into their own hands.
  • “There’s some police presence. There’s some small military presence, but at night, people are being robbed at gunpoint,” Matt Robb, a co-owner of a Lāhainā bar called The Dirty Monkey, told Insider. “People are raped and pillaged. I mean, they’re going through houses — and then by day, it’s hunky-dory. So where is the support? I don’t think our government and our leaders, at this point, know how to handle this or what to do.”
  • Kami Irwin, a Maui resident helping to coordinate relief efforts “I had to deal with a situation that wasn’t even part of who I am or what I do,” Irwin said. “I had to talk to pilots that got grounded with our medical supplies who were stuck on the Big Island because the Department of Health stopped them from transporting insulin. And we have people all over the island that need insulin.”
  • She said residents chose to take matters into their own hands after realizing they were repeatedly seeing the same local volunteers, not government officials, coordinating aid efforts.

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Maui Wildfire: Worst natural disaster in a decade

Hawaii Fires

Important Takeaways:

  • Hawaii mourns the dead in ferocious wildfires while officials warn the full toll is not yet known
  • With the toll at 96, this is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Two fires have not yet been completely contained, including the one that demolished the historic town of Lahaina, according to an update from Maui County late Sunday.
  • The blaze that swept into centuries-old Lahaina on Tuesday destroyed nearly every building in the town of 13,000, leaving a grid of gray rubble wedged between the blue ocean and lush green slopes. That fire has been 85% contained, according to the county, while the Upcountry fire has been 60% contained.
  • “There’s very little left there,” Gov. Josh Green said, holding up a map of the area titled “Buildings Damaged in Maui Wildfires Lahaina Area.” He added that “an estimated value of $5.6 billion has gone away.”
  • The cause of the wildfires is under investigation, and Green said authorities would also examine their response. One fire, for instance, was thought to be out but later flared again. Before a fire engulfed Lahaina, Maui County officials also failed to activate sirens that would have warned the entire population and instead relied on social media posts.
  • Fueled by a dry summer and strong winds from a passing hurricane, the flames on Maui raced through parched brush — one moving as fast as 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) every minute, according to Green.

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Wildfires overwhelming first responders in Hawaii as cell towers are down making communication difficult

Lahaina Burning

Important Takeaways:

  • Hawaii wildfires: Maui hospitals ‘overwhelmed’ and 911 services are disconnected due to downed cell towers as terrified residents try to flee
  • Hospitals in Maui have become overwhelmed with patients as the wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and killed ‘multiple’ people rage on.
  • Multiple people are feared dead and countless are fearing for their lives in Hawaii this morning after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfires set fire to the island paradise.
  • The fires, fanned by strong winds from Hurricane Dora, have burned structures, forced evacuations and caused power outages in several communities.
  • 911 services in most of Maui are disconnected due to downed cell towers, hampering the evacuation efforts.
  • ‘What we are trying to do is deploy individuals to go into areas with satellite phone service.
  • ‘We have only been in contact with perhaps one hotel because the one hotel, the people in charge of that hotel have satellite phones.
  • ‘That’s the only way you can make connection.
  • Acting Governor Sylvia Luke issued an emergency proclamation on behalf of Gov. Josh Green, who is traveling, and activated the Hawaii National Guard.
  • Fire crews on Maui were battling multiple blazes concentrated in two areas: the popular tourist destination of West Maui and an inland, mountainous region.
  • Footage shot from a yacht in Lahaina Mooring Field in Maui shows the sky bruising as huge plumes of smoke rise from the fires.

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Unknown mystery balloon floats over Hawaii

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Another One? U.S. Military Tracking New Mystery Balloon Near Hawaii
  • The U.S. Department of (DoD) confirmed Monday it is following the path of a mystery high-altitude balloon crossing over American territory.
  • Just who owns it and where it is destined remains a mystery.
  • The DoD and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first detected and tracked the unmanned balloon off the coast of Hawaii on April 28.
  • It was floating at about 36,000 feet, a DoD spokesman said.
  • When the balloon crossed into U.S. airspace over Hawaii, it did not transit over critical infrastructure used for defense or any other U.S. government sensitive sites, the spokesman said, nor did it pose a threat to the military or those on the ground.
  • “Although it was flying at an altitude used by civil aviation, it posed no threat to civil aviation over Hawaii,” the spokesman said. “Based on these observations, the Secretary of Defense concurred with the recommendation of his military commanders that no action need be taken against the balloon.”

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Gordon Chang Warns: Recent Balloons and Lasers over Hawaii are sign China is preparing for war

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • China Lasers Hawaii, Prepares for War
  • This [spy balloon’s eight-day flight] path certainly suggests China is gathering intelligence for either a first or second strike on America’s nukes.
  • Combined with the green lasers collecting atmospheric data useful for a strike by a hypersonic glide vehicle on Hawaii, American defense planners should be alarmed.
  • The real story is that the Pentagon was caught off-guard by the recent intrusions. Only after the Chinese spy balloon penetrated U.S. airspace did the Pentagon go back over previously collected radar data and realize that there had been intrusions in previous years.
  • Deterrence is being eroded as China’s Communist Party is fast mobilizing all society for war.

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Russian Spy Ship discovered near Hawaii as Coast Guard monitors nearby

Coast Guard Emblem

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • Coast Guard monitoring suspected Russian spy ship near Hawaii
  • While foreign military ships are allowed to move through U.S. waters, the Coast Guard said in a press release that it is monitoring the vessel and sharing updated information with the Department of Defense to “appropriately meet presence with presence to encourage international maritime norms.”
  • The Coast Guard on Wednesday also shared a video clip of the vessel, which it called an intelligence gathering ship, when it was moving through the waters off Hawaii on Jan. 11.
  • Last May, the U.S. also tracked another Russian ship near Hawaii, which alerted U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
  • Tensions remain sky-high between the two countries amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

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