A day after the leader of Hawaii's emergency management agency said he had no regrets about not using emergency sirens during the deadly Lahaina wildfire, he stepped down from his role.
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00:00 More on those deadly wildfires in Maui. The head of Maui's Emergency Management
00:05 Agency abruptly resigned Thursday, a day after saying he had no regret about not
00:10 using sirens to warn residents of those wildfires in Lahaina. At least a hundred
00:14 and eleven people died in those fires. The decision, coupled with water
00:18 shortages that hampered firefighters and an escape route that became clogged with
00:23 vehicles, has brought intense criticism. Maui's siren system was created after a
00:28 1946 tsunami that killed over a hundred and fifty people on the island.
00:36 There's a heated debate, that was the big island by the way, there's a heated debate
00:39 over the use of emergency sirens during wildfires.