Maui official explains why sirens weren't activated during wildfire evacuations

HONOLULU (KHON) – Officials in Maui are defending their decision not to activate the county's emergency sirens during the wildfires that tore through parts of the island last week.
Hawaii created what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the world after a 1946 tsunami that killed more than 150. On official websites for both the county and state, the use of the sirens is described as a warning system for "both natural and human-caused events; including tsunami