While the cause of the deadly Maui fires remains under investigation, lawyers are sending experts to the island to look into utility power lines as being a possible source of ignition.
Attorneys with Watts Guerra, Singleton Schreiber, and Frantz Law Group said they have been collecting evidence, interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing reports that indicate that damaged power infrastructure owned by Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. created the spark for the flames.
Officials haven’t said what sparked the blazes that were fanned by hurricane-force winds and leveled the historic town of Lahaina. The investigation into what Hawaii Governor Josh Green described as the state’s largest-ever natural disaster could take weeks or months to produce an official determination of the cause.
That said, many things can spark a fire in the right conditions, including backfiring cars and trucks dragging chains along a road. While Marshall cautioned that it’s not clear whether the faults were the ignition sources, he said that fires need a spark and there is “clear data showing dozens of major grid faults in the area of the fires and around the start times of the fires.” There was no reported lightning at the time and it’s unlikely people were camping with high winds and a red flag warning, he added.
Frantz Law Group has an office in Honolulu and is working with a local law firm on the investigation.Hawaii Electric doesn’t have a formal power shutoff program for fire risk, Pai said.
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