Putting all disaster response in the hands of the federal government could cause a similar case to happen in the future.

Claiming that the federal/central government should by default rely, especially in the context of the crumbling and eroding infrastructural and social conditions of the United States, on alienated and isolated first responses from counties or townships or whatever is left in impoverished parts of the country is idealistic nonsense that ignores the actual conditions of those places.

And Maui isn’t even nearly one of the most impoverished areas and look how badly that went.