The wildfires, which swept by Maui on August 8, 2023, destroyed a lot of the historic city of Lahaina. The Hawaiian Electrical Corporations’ Substation 34, its warehouse and workplace, and transmission and distribution infrastructure within the Lahaina space have been worn out. Hearth temperatures allegedly exceeded 1,800°F — greater than eight occasions the utmost ranking for the substation tools. Specialists retained by the plaintiffs concluded that returning the tools to service may threat “arching, sparks, and wildfire.”
