As of August 16, at least 110 people were killed in a deadly fire on Maui, Hawaii's second-largest island, and more than 1,300 remain unaccounted for. This has become the largest number of deaths from wildfires in the United States in a century, but the situation after the fire is even more confusing. At first, everyone agreed that the wildfire was a natural disaster, affected by dry weather and Hurricane Dora. However, the cause of the fire has raised questions, with media pointing out that Hawaiian Power failed to cut off power before strong winds arrived, prompting growing doubts. On the night the fire spread, 122 short circuits were detected on the local utility grid, any of which could have sparked and caused a fire.
In addition, the Hawaiian Islands have a huge military base and are the logistics and command center of the US military in the Pacific region, of which Pearl Harbor is the location of the US Pacific Fleet Command. The United States is said to have deployed the world's largest outdoor networked public safety early warning system in Hawaii, with about 400 sirens, including 80 in Maui. However, none of these sirens sounded when the fire broke out. Local residents said in interviews that almost all of them had not received any alerts and evacuation notices, and by the time they found out they had to evacuate, it was too late. There were no alarms or evacuation notices before the fire, and when the fire was raging, the fire brigade arrived 8 hours later and was unable to participate in the rescue because the fire was too big.
And the response of the US federal government after the fire was even more surprising, Biden was actually on vacation during the fire. After the vacation, he announced a one-time payment of $700 to people displaced by the Maui fires, Hawaii, and "per household." At the same time, however, the United States once again announced $200 million in military aid to Ukraine. Even more bizarre, according to the BBC, local victims denounced the U.S. government for "doing almost nothing, and hindering people from helping and preventing locally procured supplies from entering the disaster area." Hawaiians continue to post videos claiming that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Guard and others prevented the collection of food and necessities from reaching the Maui, and some even rushed ashore on motorboats to deliver relief supplies to the disaster area.
There were attempts by U.S. capital to buy land on the Hawaiian island of Maui, but the indigenous people refused. Despite the ferocity of the fire, the civilian area felt like the end of the world, but the adjacent rich area was unscathed and the fire line was rock solid. This is not a conspiracy theory by Chinese netizens, but a question about it by the Americans themselves. Local people said the consortium had begun talking to Maui survivors about buying the land, and that the value of the land after a fire would not be too high. Victims receive $700 from the government per household, eliminating the cost of demolition. In the face of such robbery, Hawaii Governor Green angrily denounced real estate investors for trying to "steal land" from people whose homes were destroyed by the Maui fires, vowing to prohibit out-of-state buyers from buying land in the burning area, even in the face of U.S. legal challenges.
Sometimes we laugh at conspiracy theories, but this time the Americans gradually proved the possibility of conspiracy theories with practical actions.