Pālolo resident Randolph Hack could barely hear the warning sirens during the tsunami warning on July 29 or during a test of the system three days later.
Residents of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Pearl City and in Mākaha on Oʻahu’s Westside also found the sirens in their areas faint or inaudible. Hack and other residents on Pālolo’s neighborhood board have been calling for repairs for the siren at a park in the valley for the last two years.
Given the deadly Maui wildfires in 2023 and the constant threat natural disasters pose to communities across Hawaiʻi, Hack said living with a broken siren is “getting to be intolerable.”…