Mayor Blangiardi on a task force to look into merging HFD and EMS, plus a town hall meeting in Nānākuli

On this week’s episode of the One O‘ahu Podcast, Mayor Rick Blangiardi joins host Brandi Higa to talk about standing up a task force to determine whether the Honolulu Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services would be better off as a single, integrated department (0:57). Then, Mayor Blangiardi discusses the start of passenger operations for the second segment of Skyline, the City’s rail transit system, by Oct. 1, 2025 (14:09). Later, takeaways from Mayor Blangiardi’s recent town hall meeting in Nānākuli, the first of seven this year (16:09).