#shorts On 8/30/2023, a reporter asked Biden FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, “I’m going to take you back to Hawaii, if I could, Administrator, because there is still a lot of questions among officials in Maui and Lahaina and across Hawaii about who was in charge in the hours as the fires burned and in the hours after. You’re a veteran local emergency management official, state emergency management official, now at the federal level — how do you assess how officials there responded? Are there lessons to be learned, perhaps, for other communities? And is your agency prepared to work with congressional Republicans if they launch investigations, as they say they will?

ADMINISTRATOR CRISWELL: Again, I was not there during the response, and so I would be out of line to assess how they responded during the time because I did not experience what they were experiencing …

Reporter: Were you be properly briefed by FEMA authorities in Hawaii that would have been working with those officials?

ADMINISTRATOR CRISWELL: What I was briefed on throughout the time is my Regional Administrator Bob Fenton happened to be in Oahu for another meeting …

Reporter: And if congressional Republicans want you or other agency officials to testify about what went on in Hawaii —

ADMINISTRATOR CRISWELL: I’m happy to —
Reporter: — are you willing to do so?
ADMINISTRATOR CRISWELL: — testify on what the federal role was in this process.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/VN96KDkn0tw
Biden FEMA Administrator Won’t Comment On “Who Was In Charge” During Maui Wildfires Disaster