German Perception

 I attended a Sunday evening bar-b-q, with a couple of Germans, and one American.

So the topic of the Maui fire came up....probably for two minutes.

What the Germans see....is entirely the German newspapers or nightly public TV news.  Most of that is a 'clip' of CNN, or AP.  

So the take?  Three basic things: awful tragic, some skepticism that the story told....doesn't fit or make sense, and that a fair amount of incompetence falls into play with Hawaii authorities.

In simple terms.....they were told X, Y and Z....disbelieving it.

I'm not going to say this happens all the time, but it's curious how this was a non-Germany topic, and they just didn't buy into the story told.