Maui Top Emergency Official Resigns After Defending Decision Not to Raise Sound Sirens During Wildfire

Maui Emergency Management Agency administrator Herman Andaya resigned Thursday, a day after he defended not using sound sirens to warn residents. He said they were intended to be used for tsunami warnings.

. They are Robert Dyckman, 74, Buddy Jantoc, 79, Melva Benjamin, 71, Virginia Dofa, 90, and Alfredo Galinato, 79.

."It’s where many of our chiefs are buried. So under the rubble are their ancestral remains. Lahaina was a sacred place as much as those. The church has significance to our culture, and now it is just gone."

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