The head of the emergency management agency of Maui, Herman Andaya, who had been criticized for emergency sirens not being sounded as a wildfire spread through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, resigned on Thursday, a statement said.
A Maui County statement, released on Thursday, said that today Maui’s Mayor Richard Bissen accept the Administrator of Maui Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) Herman Andaya’s resignation.
With mentioning health causes, Andaya presented his resignation sufficiently immediately, the statement added.
In a news conference on Wednesday, Andaya told that he didn’t sorrow his decision to not activate an island-wide network of 121-decibel sirens as the lethal wildfire took down Lahaina and its more than 12,000 locals.
Andaya’s decision along with other concern mistakes before, during, and after the tragedy, which left at least 111 people killed, has flared rage among survivors, who say more lives could have been saved.
Bissen said that given the seriousness of the situation we are encountering, my crew and I will be putting someone in this critical position as quickly as possible and I look ahead to giving that statement soon.
