wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires
An emergency declaration was signed on August 8, authorizing several actions, including activation of the Hawaii National Guard, appropriate actions by the director of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and the Administrator of Emergency Management, and the expenditure of state general revenue funds for relief of conditions created by the fires. By August 9, the state government of Hawaii issued a state of emergency for the entirety of the state. On August 10, U.S. President Joe Biden issued a federal major disaster declaration.


dailymail.co.uk: Maui fire investigation: Maui's top emergency officials were on a different island for a disaster training as flames flared and did not join response call until five hours after the deadly wildfires begun

The Daily Mail's link supporting their headline is too an older DM article that does not seem to mention this, but some internet searching confirms the meeting nearby at the time the disaster started.

samoanews.com: Enhancing Disaster Resilience: American Samoa participates in Pacific Partnership Meeting 2023
Mon, 08/14/2023
The Pacific Partnership Meeting (PPM) 2023 brought together FEMA federal partners, the state of Hawaii and Pacific territories to meet, collaborate, discuss and receive information on programs, services, opportunities and resources available through the federal agency.

According to a press release from the Governor’s Office, Pacific territorial leaders — including Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga, were able to share with FEMA Region IX Regional Administrator Robert Fenton, “unmet needs and request assistance to help them improve their readiness for future disasters.”

...The Pacific Partnership Meeting 2023 took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, from August 8- 10.
We have seen this before, especially with disaster drills 'unexpectedly' going live. Not necessarily proof that these particular government officials were engineering the disaster, but have seen this too often with high publicized disasters or incidents to be this often happening randomly as it could from time to time. Like 9-11. Probably more like some of these government officials, like much of the public, are also being abused by modern western Stasi's plague and democide the citizens terrorism.


9/11 Synthetic Terror-Made in USA: With the 46 Drills of 9/11 by Webster G Tarpley (Nov. 11 2011)