Old Lahaina Town Utterly Destroyed - Recovery & Relief Efforts

[AaronM]

(more) good old boy network

This is really sad:

Herman Andaya was not an expert in emergency management when he was hired to lead the Maui Emergency Management Agency in 2017. 
Trained in political science and the law, he has no formal education in disaster preparedness or response. And prior to his current role, he never held a full-time job dedicated to emergency management. 
Instead, his main qualification was being chief of staff to then-mayor Alan Arakawa. But in that role, he told Civil Beat Tuesday, he assisted during emergency operations. And he said he participated in online FEMA trainings and workshops throughout the years. 
In 2017, Andaya beat out 40 other applicants for the job, Maui Now reported at the time. 


https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/was-ma...-his-head/

At least we have Talmadge Magno as our Civil Defense Administrator on the Big Island. What could possibly go wrong?

As he is now 65 years of age, I suspect Talmadge to be tapping someone's shoulder soon enough.  I expect those shoulders will experience significant scrunity...