Over the past seventy years 222 lives have been lost on Hawaii shores from powerful tsunamis generated by destructive earthquakes. When a tsunami is imminent, evacuation needs to occur quickly ...
Read More Tsunami Evacuation Signs Coming to Kailua
Information and News Releases
In August of 2014 Tropical Storm Iselle collided with Hawaii island. Iselle caused immense damage when it stalled and started to chew on the island’s abundance of Albezia trees, “There’s ...
Read More Drone Footage Tropical Storm Iselle 2014
Emergency warning sirens across Oahu and a few on Kauai went off accidentally at approximately 8:07 this morning. According to Mel Kaku, director of the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management, ...
Read More Warning Sirens Mishap
The most recent eruption of Kilauea Volcano will mark another milestone on January 3, 2017. That date is the 34th anniversary of Kīlauea Volcano’s ongoing East Rift Zone eruption, which ...
Read More Kilauea Eruption hits 34-Years
Voters in the 2016 General Election approved an amendment to the Kaua‘i County Charter that renames the county’s Civil Defense Agency (KCDA) as the Emergency Management Agency. The name change ...
Read More Name Change for Kauai Civil Defense