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Firefighters were finally advised that power to the area had been shut off at 4:11 p.m., according to the report.

In the months since, Hawaiian Electric has said the lines were shut off for more than six hours before the afternoon fire was reported.

The attorney general’s report is the first phase of a comprehensive assessment that includes a timeline of the Lahaina fire using social media posts, metadata from citizen photos and videos, dispatch records, emergency communications and other sources.

Investigators are still trying to get some documents from Maui County, officials said.

“We’re going to continue this investigation, and we will follow it wherever it leads,” Lopez said.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also investigating, and its report, expected to pinpoint cause, will come out before the one-year anniversary.

The report released Wednesday says that five days before the flames broke out, meteorologists warned that strengthening winds resulting from a hurricane south of Hawaii could lead to extreme wildfire risk Aug.

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“As far as what caused or what happened between the two, that is for the ATF cause and origin investigation to show,” he said.

Kerber said he would not get into whether or not the timeline indicated the two fires were the same fire. More than an hour later Herman Andaya, who was at the time head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency and on Oahu at a conference, asked an administrative assistant in his office whether any buildings on Maui’s West Side had been lost.

Gaye Gabuat’s answer: She didn’t know.

Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez released the details of those exchanges, and thousands of other data points, in a sweeping timeline of government responses to the fire that destroyed much of Lahaina and killed 101 people on Aug.

8. Kerber said his team and Lopez decided to defer to the Maui County report because Kerber’s team “would have called the folks at ATF” to do the same analysis and there was no need to duplicate efforts.

Communication Failures

While the report doesn’t analyze what went wrong, the timeline details numerous challenges in the response.

Front Street had been closed along with the Lahaina bypass road, another key thoroughfare. The focus of the call was mostly on the Kula fire, Hara later recalled. Firefighters were finally advised that power to the area had been shut off at 4:11 p.m., according to the report.

In the months since, Hawaiian Electric has said the lines were shut off for more than six hours before the afternoon fire was reported.

The attorney general’s report is the first phase of a comprehensive assessment that includes a timeline of the Lahaina fire using social media posts, metadata from citizen photos and videos, dispatch records, emergency communications and other sources.

In Lahaina alone, 29 utility poles were reported downed.

There was no immediate response to attempts Wednesday to reach Andaya, who resigned Aug. 18, via phone, email and social media.

Investigators said they requested incident activity logs and other records from the agency’s emergency operations center, or EOC, on multiple occasions.

They include police and fire department dispatch records, communications between police and firefighters, reports from Hawaiian Electric Co. and hundreds of photographs and videos from residents with time stamps showing exactly when the images were recorded, Alkonis told media at a press briefing.

For all of its detail, the timeline report is just that: a chronology of events with no assessment or analysis of actions taken or lessons learned.

Andaya asked if he should come home, to which Gabuat responded, “it may look okay.“

After the fire had been burning for more than five hours, Gabuat told Andaya that flames had reached Front Street, Lahaina’s commercial heart.