UC Davis Department Safety Coordinators, or DSCs, have worked together with Emergency Management to update the process and ...
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 ...
Knowing your evacuation route in advance is key to avoiding further panic and getting trapped in traffic. Many states have predetermined evacuation zones and routes. But as we've seen, sometimes plans ...
The delay in evacuation orders has raised serious concerns about the effectiveness of the county's emergency response system.County Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath introduced a ...
The fire is in the yard." Mark shared what she sees as the current flaw in emergency response for those with disabilities. "911 is going to be overwhelmed during an emergency, and dialing 911 is ...
Records, radio logs and interviews show that residents living west of Lake Avenue were not told to evacuate via electronic alerts until many hours after the Eaton fire started. Residents said they ...
“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 ...