Maui’s firefighting efforts may have been hampered by limited staff and equipment.
Bobby Lee, president of the Hawaii Firefighters Association, said there are a maximum of 65 county firefighters working at any given time, who are responsible for three islands: Maui, Molokai and Lanai.
“It’s not that people didn’t try to do anything,” Curran said. “The fire went from zero to 100.” Curran said he had seen horrendous wildfires growing up in California.
But, he added, “I’ve never seen one eat an entire town in four hours.”
Either is bad. But spitting can lead to transmission of things like hep c and hiv.
The consequences of a bottle to the head are pretty immediate so most people gon”oh that’s bad”. But spitting is just seen as offensive and people who are “okay” with it doesn’t understand the risks- and we have no way of knowing what they’re carrying, so we have to assume… everything
It’s what he’s supposed to do. Special Counsels are there for situations when DOJ investigations & prosecutions fall afoul of politics - the investigation is in the hands of the same prosecutor as before, he just has the Special Prosecutor hat. Most important, he’s a career person, not an appointed political hack.
Now the investigation is under a career prosecutor, with rules & norms that keep politicians at arms’ reach, be they Republican or Democratic, and they can’t do things like yoink budgets or retaliate nearly so easily.
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