From Politico: President Joe Biden hasn’t launched a Maui fire investigation. Here’s why. While the White House defers to Hawaii on a formal probe, Congress holds the key to forcing scrutiny from the feds.
“The Biden administration has promised billions of dollars to help Hawaii recover from its deadly wildfires this month — but not a federal investigation into what went wrong.
Even if the administration wanted an independent inquiry, there is no national disaster investigator to dig into unanswered questions about the response to the Lahaina blaze. Among those questions: Why the island’s siren system wasn’t used to cue evacuations, how water lines ran dry in fighting the fire and whether the White House was quick enough in deploying federal help.”
Recovery Diva 
I think this is a great idea, and could logically be applied to any emergency or disaster where Federal resources were involved, and it really needs to be a legitimate outside agency or board of some type that can investigate and report independently and has no stake in the outcome. I remember right after 9/11 when initial reports from NYC indicated a well-organized and well-coordinated response. (To which, I’ll confess, I thought yeah, right.) It wasn’t until awhile later that I learned that NYC didn’t use the Incident Command System, and how a disconnect between the police and fire response may have contributed to the deaths of more than 100 firefighters inside the second tower when an evacuation order went out over the police frequency that apparently was not being monitored or received by the fire responders. Whether the Administration is Democrat or Republican, woke or sleepy, I agree with Fugate and Serino…I think we need this.
I think of the suggested organization as similar to the National Transportation Safety Board. They study failures and disasters and usually their reports are accepted by the parties involved and the public with no fuss.
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To answer your question, most definitely not. The big issues to be investigated are at the state level. The federal gov’t and its post-disaster aid delivery are side issues in terms of finding and eliminating the causes. Further, it is doubtful whether another “woke” agency would have the impetus to investigate or the ability to fix important local sources of the disaster such as the long delay in releasing water.
A national Board (e.g., NTSB) is most useful when
1. Events are repeated enough that any findings can prevent another; and,
2. When federal action could be taken to prevent recurrence.
As far as I can tell, the disaster was caused by local sources, and the necessary actions most likely will occur at the local level.