The emergency sirens on Maui failed to go off as a devastating wildfire approached residential areas on the island, according to the Hawaii Emergency Services Administration (HI-EMA). 

The agency said that it tests the emergency sirens once a month, but when a wildfire reached residential areas such as Lahaina earlier this week, the sirens did not alert Hawaiians to the danger heading their way, The New York Post reported. Flames reached the city on Tuesday, and authorities have confirmed the fire killed 80 people, but officials warned it could rise even higher. 

“Neither Maui nor HI-EMA activated warning sirens on Maui during the wildfire incident,” the agency said in a statement. “The sirens are used to alert the public to seek additional information; they do not necessarily indicate an evacuation.”

“There was no warning. There was absolutely none. Nobody came around. We didn’t see a fire truck or anybody,” said resident Lynn Robinson, who lost her home in the blaze. 

HI-EMA also sent out alerts via text, radio, and TV, but many residents didn’t receive or notice alerts and were only made aware of the fire when they saw it or heard explosions. It remained unclear why the emergency sirens didn’t initially go off, according to Gov. Josh Green (D-HI), who told CNN that much of the equipment was “destroyed very rapidly” by the fire. 

Half a dozen fires continue to burn on Maui as of Saturday, but officials said the Lahaina fire, by far the most deadly and destructive, is now 85% contained, NBC News reported. As the fire spread through the city, residents were forced to jump into the Pacific to save themselves, and the U.S. Coast Guard used a 45-foot boat to rescue at least 14 people. Over 2,000 buildings were destroyed or damaged in the inferno, and Maui County could face rebuilding costs of up to $5.52 billion. 

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Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said her office will conduct a “comprehensive review” of the decisions made by officials before, during, and after the wildfires.

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“The Department of the Attorney General shares the grief felt by all in Hawaiʻi, and our hearts go out to everyone affected by this tragedy,” Lopez said Friday. “My Department is committed to understanding the decisions that were made before and during the wildfires and to sharing with the public the results of this review. As we continue to support all aspects of the ongoing relief effort, now is the time to begin this process of understanding.”

A Texas woman named Tracy Shannon, dubbed a “trans widow,” details real consequences of the transgender movement during a sit-down interview released Saturday with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles.

Shannon says her family was torn apart when her husband tossed aside his family — including his three children — to fully embrace his cross-dressing sexual fetish and live a transgender lifestyle.

Shannon told Knowles that her husband, whom she was married to for 15 years, declined to tell her before their nuptials that he enjoyed cross-dressing. When she found out about the fetish around four years into the marriage, Shannon made it clear she was uncomfortable with such behavior. But her husband refused to stop.

At one point in the discussion, Shannon revealed that her then-husband wanted to breastfeed their daughter, claiming he was trying to “help” Shannon.

“He offered to breastfeed her,” she recalled. “He kept bringing it up, like, pressuring me. I said, ‘No,’ [and he’d say,] ‘I can help you.’ It was always, ‘I’m helping you,’ and ‘I’m trying to understand you and trying to give you a break.'” 

Shannon also recalled her now-ex-husband similarly explaining that he wanted to “understand” her by fashioning himself a fake pregnancy belly with extremely large breasts. She says he walked around the house, in front of their children, with the accessory on while doing Shannon’s “chores,” despite numerous protests to stop.

“My son, who was very disturbed by this, actually went and destroyed that thing with a pair of scissors,” she told Knowles. 

Her ex-husband, Shannon says, was even secretly taking cross-sex hormones during their marriage. To throw Shannon off the scent, he told her he was sprouting little breasts as a side effect of OCD medication that he was taking to lessen his urge to crossdress. Shannon also said he had affairs with people online.

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When the pair moved forward with the divorce, and Shannon said her experiences with the courts in Texas, a state viewed as one of the most conservative in the nation, would shock most people.

She said most days in court started with debate over “preferred pronouns.” She also said she initially had to share custody of the pair’s three children, which she thought was not in the best interest of the children given her ex’s lifestyle.

During the pair’s marriage, Shannon was a stay-at-home mother who homeschooled their children. She said she received only $500 a month from her ex, though he made a good living and brought in six figures. Shannon says she was left “broke,” and had to move back in with her parents.

She also noted that a court signed off on a request to stop Shannon from homeschooling their children. The kids were then forced into public school.

Most disturbingly, Shannon explained the toll her ex-husband’s choices have had on their children. She recalled their “embarrassment,” the alleged abuse they suffered at their father’s home, and revealed that there have been six suicide attempts between her three children with her ex.

“Between the three of them, there have been six suicide attempts of different degrees of seriousness and one hospitalization in a mental health facility for a pretty good period of time, for one,” Shannon told Knowles. 

“And I’m being called the bigot, you know, for not wanting to be on board with all this, for not supporting it,” she added. “We used to protect children, we used to protect the family, and honor the truth.”

The full interview is available to stream for Daily Wire subscribers, here.

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