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Disobeying the authorities saved their lives

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Posted By: Beardo, 8/23/2023 4:53:38 PM

Trust the experts they say. (snip) As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, car after car of fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a desperate race for safety. And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30. One family swerved around the barricade and was safe in a nearby town 48 minutes later, (snip) The police blockaded the only way out. The only people to survive there were the people who were smart enough to realize that the authorities had no idea what they were doing.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: chumley 8/23/2023 4:57:17 PM (No. 1541011)
If I remember right the firemen at the world trade center made people who were on the way out go back in. Trust the authorities at your peril.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rat Patrol 8/23/2023 4:59:28 PM (No. 1541013)
They knew what they were doing,don't kid yourselves..
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BarryNo 8/23/2023 5:19:23 PM (No. 1541025)
Those cops should be indicted for murder. Following illegal orders is no excuse. Whoever gave the orders should also be indicted, and hung if convicted.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Birddog 8/23/2023 5:19:42 PM (No. 1541026)
Did the cop survive? Should not be hard to determine exactly which cop it was...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Califedup 8/23/2023 5:37:21 PM (No. 1541037)
Hey I have a question: Where has that great number one Hawaiian Communist Death Democrat Ex Dictator Barack Obama and our First Trans Lady Michelle been during all of this horrific catastrophe? Anyone see any pictures of these two racing down to Maui to comfort and succor their fellow Hawaiians? Are they donating any of their ill gotten millions to provide food, water, shelter, medicine? The answer course is a big fat no. The communist propaganda media would be slobbering over them if they did. Whomever gave orders for that barricade to be set up and the police officers or highway workers who did and were turning everyone away in a sane society should be arrested for mass murder and sentence to life in prison with no parole. All of these communist death democrat Government workers are covering each others butts and don't have any remorse for their crimes especially against the innocent children they killed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 8/23/2023 5:37:39 PM (No. 1541039)
Almost everything every government has told us for the last 40 or more years has been a lie or a half truth in furtherance of an agenda. Everything is suspect.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 8/23/2023 5:45:04 PM (No. 1541044)
Three strikes: Water refused, emergency system not activated, only escape route closed. Authorities? You are fired!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Chiritwo 8/23/2023 6:01:25 PM (No. 1541053)
That just makes me feel sick. What was the reason for closing the road? To keep everyone in a burning city?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 8/23/2023 6:05:40 PM (No. 1541058)
Having vacationed many times before in west Maui, I can see why survival was up to the individual. Every man/woman for themselves. All of the emergency preparedness focus was on tsunamis and nothing else. In crisis, no one knew what to do or say. That's what the locals were programmed to believe. Over the decades, the county and municipal governmental leaders never thought out of the box beyond tsunamis. The one thing Maui County did do right in recent years was construct a bypass road around Lahaina over to Ka'anapali to reduce traffic volume on Front Street. This is the only reason why many many more people were not burned alive in their houses and in their cars.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: FunOne 8/23/2023 6:16:16 PM (No. 1541059)
"Cook 'em, Danno."
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Reply 11 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 8/23/2023 6:17:31 PM (No. 1541061)
Why was the road blockaded? Were the LEOs trying to kill the residents? Seems that way. Have we heard from the Chief of Police? Silence. What a bunch of incompetent bureaucrats. Sue the living shite out of every government person and agency involved in fighting (yea, right) the wildfire.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Krause 8/23/2023 6:17:40 PM (No. 1541062)
Sounds like a bunch of Joe Bidens are running the show over there.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 8/23/2023 6:34:23 PM (No. 1541068)
The road was no doubt blockaded to keep it clear for emergency vehicles - did they show in time?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: udanja99 8/23/2023 6:35:16 PM (No. 1541069)
Same thing with covid. I’m not worried about major health problems because I disobeyed the “vaccine” idiots.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Daria 8/23/2023 6:43:44 PM (No. 1541074)
Compare this to the response to Hurricane Ian. The vast majority of Democrat bureaucrats shouldn’t even be in charge of a dog kennel.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: caljeepgirl 8/23/2023 7:29:57 PM (No. 1541102)
Time and again I have found this to be true in emergency situations.....trust your instincts and pay no heed to what everyone else is doing!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Starboard_side 8/23/2023 7:36:41 PM (No. 1541107)
FTA: Kim Cuevas-Reyes narrowly escapes with her 12- and 15-year-old by ignoring instructions to turn right on Front Street toward Lahaina’s Civic Center, which earlier in the day had been turned into a shelter for refugees. Instead, she takes a left, driving in the wrong lane to pass a stack of cars heading in the other direction. How many escaped from the Lahaina Civic Center? This is a hard article to read as it's so sad. Who gave the order to have the police block the road should be answered ASAP. Certainly wonder if it truly was a firefighter who went to put out the initial brush fire at 8am, and declared it 100% contained around 9am. Which engine company answered that call?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: NeonVortex 8/23/2023 8:02:58 PM (No. 1541120)
Everybody still in love with the police?
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Reply 19 - Posted by: OhioNick 8/23/2023 10:51:28 PM (No. 1541184)
Was the head of the police department an unqualified DEI recipient who checked all of the "special" boxes?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: faceincrowd 8/24/2023 10:51:08 AM (No. 1541414)
Just more proof the "authorities" just wanted to send as many people as they could to their deaths.
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