Three observations:
1. There's going to be a lot of talk over incompetence in the next twelve months. A number of people who held positions of responsibilities.....probably weren't qualified or capable of fulfilling the roles.
This is going to cause of lot of us....non-Hawaii folks....to look around and ask the same questions of our local police, fire protection, water control, and authorities.
2. The state of Hawaii getting a lawsuit bill for the deaths? Oh, I would wager there will be a full decade of lawsuits....probably going over the 1-billion dollar range.
3. All this leading back to the way fires are handled in the 49 other states?
Yeah, that's a probable outcome.