Nation Blaring warning sirens would have driven fleeing locals ‘into the fire,’ Maui official says August 17, 2023John Bacon and N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAYComments Off on Blaring warning sirens would have driven fleeing locals ‘into the fire,’ Maui official says A Maui County official defended the decision not to use Hawaii's state-of-the-art siren alert system as a wildfire roared toward Lahaina.