Hawaiian Electric Industries, which provides power to 95 percent of the state’s residents, has come under fire over itsduring hurricane-force winds, which critics claim is why Maui’s resort city of Lahaina burned to the ground last week.
The tactic of cutting power under such conditions has been followed by utility companies in California, Oregon and Nevada in the wake of devastating blazes in 2020. “Scores of people burned to death. Other victims suffered severe burns, smoke inhalation and additional serious injuries,” the suit adds. “The fire decimated the entire historic town of Lahaina, as homes, businesses, churches, schools, and cultural sites burned to the ground. Only ashes of those structures remain.”
The town of about 13,000 was burned to the ground and will require billions of dollars to rebuild along with the rest of West Maui, officials said.The lawyers also pointed to a funding request form submitted by Hawaiian Electric last year where “the company sought funding specifically to ‘minimize the probability of the Companies’ facilities becoming the origin or contributing source of ignition for a wildfire.
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