The lawsuit, which also names Hawaii's largest landowner as a defendant, claims the three did not maintain undeveloped properties.
The family of a woman who died trying to flee a wildfire on Maui is suing the county, the state and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, alleging they neglected to maintain their fire-prone property.
“They should have been able to get out,” said Anne Andrews, a lawyer for the family of Rebecca Rans, 57. “There was a total failure to groom that land and failure to maintain that land.” “The combination of weather, uncontrolled vegetation and decaying and neglected electrical infrastructure predictably created a tinderbox ready to explode in Maui," he continued."The risk was not theoretical — it was visible, palpable and entirely avoidable.
for money to harden its power grid even though numerous environmental reports had outlined the problems. “Large landowners, including Bishop Estate, the State, and Maui County, had a duty to reduce fire risk to Lahaina and other vulnerable places, yet they undertook no or poor vegetation management,” the complaint reads.Rans, who suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis, according to the complaint, and could walk only short distances, died trying to escape the flames with her partner, Doug Gloege.
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