The state attorney general’s latest report on the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire flagged various locked gates that blocked people trying to flee as flaws in Maui’s evacuation planning.
Yet a padlocked gate where the largest cluster of Lahaina wildfire fatalities occurred was not included in the analysis, which therefore did not seek to determine whether lives could have been saved if it had been opened either by emergency responders – or anyone with a key.
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That’s because the gate on Kuhua Street “was not mentioned” to investigators with the Fire Safety Research Institute, according to attorney