08-11-2023, 12:13 AM
Yeah that's what I heard too. Caused by brush fire outside Lahina and wind blew it in right?
Hawaii sugar companies came in, cleared the land and planted sugar. Sugar companies decide business is no longer profitable and they're gone by 80s and 90s and land grows weeds. Years and years of weed growth go untended on private land. Weeds catch ablaze and turns into a fire maelstrom given a day of particular windy conditions. Fire engulfs community.
What can be done to prevent this in future? We need to learn from this.
My first thought is vegetation free buffer zone? That wouldn't look much like tropical Hawaii you might see on postcards though. Hmm.
Planting trees around the outside of the city might help to slow down the winds and inhibit weed growth but trees can catch fire too. California wildfires as an example.
Hawaii sugar companies came in, cleared the land and planted sugar. Sugar companies decide business is no longer profitable and they're gone by 80s and 90s and land grows weeds. Years and years of weed growth go untended on private land. Weeds catch ablaze and turns into a fire maelstrom given a day of particular windy conditions. Fire engulfs community.
What can be done to prevent this in future? We need to learn from this.
My first thought is vegetation free buffer zone? That wouldn't look much like tropical Hawaii you might see on postcards though. Hmm.
Planting trees around the outside of the city might help to slow down the winds and inhibit weed growth but trees can catch fire too. California wildfires as an example.