Lawyers say evidence points to Hawaiian Electric’s equipment being the possible source of ignition. Read more at straitstimes.com.
remains under investigation, lawyers are sending experts to the island to look into utility power lines as being a possible source of ignition.
Officials haven’t said what sparked the blazes that were fanned by hurricane-force winds and levelled 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.
Sensors that monitor power flow into households detected a major grid fault just after 11.38pm local time on Aug 7 , about 20 minutes before a fire was first reported in Maui, followed by dozens of faults overnight, said Mr Bob Marshall, chief executive officer of Whisker Labs. “We had a situation here with very high winds, very high heat,” said Mr James Frantz, whose firm, Frantz Law Group, is looking at power lines as a culprit and has been signing up residents and businesses in Maui who lost their homes. “And all those factors call for de-energising those lines when that event occurs. They did not do that, and they had the power to do it.”Frantz Law Group has an office in Honolulu and is working with a local law firm on the investigation.
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