Huntington officials announce plans for emergency, evacuation exit for Enslow Park
The City of Huntington announced on Tuesday leaders are working to ensure residents in Enslow Park have a reliable emergency ...
Our Readers Write: Evacuation plans, ‘Welcome to La Jolla’ sign, Senate Bill 92
The 2023 Maui wildfires serve as a grim reminder of what can happen when evacuation plans fail. In Lahaina, over 100 lives ...
Bill McEwen14d
Flawed Emergency Alert Systems Lagged When Residents Needed Them Most During Los Angeles Wildfires
LA wildfires expose flaws in emergency alert systems, leaving residents scrambling for information during critical hours.
The Columbian14d
Too little, too late: Residents say they were in the dark as fire spread with no evacuation order
After the wind-driven wildfires broke out in Southern California on Jan. 7, evacuation orders ... A 2024 Hazard Mitigation plan directed the city’s Emergency Management Department to assess ...
The Boston Globe15d
Evacuated residents wait hours for a chance to return to burned LA neighborhoods
On Monday afternoon, the city lifted all remaining evacuation orders and dropped the escort requirement. The sun was out after the first significant storm of the season brought rain that helped ...
ucdavis.edu16d
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 documentation for implementing building evacuation plans, establishing a ...
The Business Journals16d
Baptist Health plans emergency tower at flagship campus
A rendering of Baptist Health's planned four-story emergency tower. Expand to read more Hoefer Welker Listen to this article 5 min Baptist Health's new emergency tower could reshape urgent care in ...
NBC News20d
Thousands told to evacuate after two new blazes start in Los Angeles County
Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los ...
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All 17 deaths in Eaton Fire were in a zone where evacuation orders took hours to arrive
Her granddaughter, Dalyce Kelley, previously told NBC News that it was possible her grandmother didn’t receive emergency alerts and was unaware of the middle-of-the-night evacuation order.
Los Angeles Times21d
Castaic jail complex in wildfire evacuation zone; officials plan to shelter in place
But by late afternoon, when the flames had spread to more than 8,000 acres, Luna told The Times that he’d started making plans for a large-scale evacuation should one become necessary.
CNN21d
In western Altadena, where 17 wildfire deaths were reported, residents say evacuation alerts came late or not at all
“None of us got a red (mandatory evacuation) alert before we felt ready to leave our houses,” he told CNN Wednesday. “You know, we felt heat and fire and that trumps any alert. So a lot of ...
kcra.com21d
Over 50,000 under evacuation orders or warnings as wildfire imperils homes north of Los Angeles
More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles, as parched Southern California ...