FILE – Maui Country Mayor Richard Bissen speaks as Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, President Joe Biden, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green and his wife, Jaimie, listen after Biden toured areas devastated by the Maui wildfires, Aug. 21, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Nine months after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century struck, Bissen says the county will hire an outside expert to assess how its emergency management agency performed during the disaster. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)