Emergency Evacuation Alerts During Eaton Fires Came Hours Too Late for Some Altadena Residents – WSJ

The county sent evacuation alerts to some areas too late and failed to use all of the public warning channels at its disposal, lapses that had grave consequences, seen in the cluster of deaths west of Lake Avenue.

Equipment issues meant firefighters didn t have the full breadth of county resources to throw at the crisis; half of the Los Angeles County Fire Department s water-dousing helicopters were out of service.

A Wall Street Journal review of mobile-phone emergency alerts, social-media posts, dispatch archives and fire-department documents found that a response system that was supposed to protect lives and property when danger approached failed.

via www.wsj.com

Climate change I guess.