Too little, too late: Residents say they were in the dark as fire spread with no evacuation order
When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...
California firefighters make progress on Hughes Fire in Castaic; maps show areas under evacuation
The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with ...
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New Plans Seek to Streamline Building Evacuations
UC Davis Department Safety Coordinators, or DSCs, have worked together with Emergency Management to update the process and ...
Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes ...
New fire erupts in Southern California as thousands remain under evacuation from fast-moving Hughes Fire
The fire threat remains critical in Southern California, where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday ...
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Homes were burning and roads jammed before evacuation order for Palisades Fire, AP finds
The first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t ...
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Castaic jail complex in wildfire evacuation zone; officials plan to shelter in place
As soon as the Hughes fire broke out midmorning five miles ... Luna told The Times that he’d started making plans for a large-scale evacuation should one become necessary. Melissa Camacho ...
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L.A. County’s evacuation alert system broke down during fires. It’s part of a larger problem
A year later, when the Camp fire swept through the town of Paradise, officials did not use Wireless Emergency Alerts technology, opting for a system that sent out evacuation orders to less than a ...
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Looking for his father, a worried son went to fire evacuation zone but found death and devastation
An 84-year-old man who was killed in the California wildfires had immigrated to the U.S. from China and loved his Altadena ...