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I doubt water would have helped the situation unless it came very early on. A drone operator that night estimated the fire front moved at 3mph on average, which is a brisk walk. I'm not placing much into the sacred water theory of catastrophe, but I'm open to all of the various main theories.
Avoiding that catastrophe really needed to occur years ago to establish fire breaks both from vegetation and buildings, and between the buildings themselves. The main strip in Lahaina has all buildings connected together, and I doubt many (any?) had fire suppression systems.
Preserving the historic buildings likely meant preserving outdated building practices with regard to fire resistance, if that ever was a building consideration in those old structures.
Probably the best thing that could have been done is to evacuate earlier with a better evacuation plan.
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