Anthony Mitchell Sr., an amputee who used a wheelchair, and his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, died due to slow evacuation efforts during the Altadena fire, relatives said Friday.
The last thing Anthony Mitchell Sr. told his eldest son was that he was still waiting for an ambulance as the swiftly moving Eaton fire bore down on his Altadena home. 'He called everybody and said 'I’m OK, I’m just waiting to be evacuated,'' the junior Mitchell said of their 5 a.m. phone call. 'He probably knew nobody was coming, but he wanted to keep everybody at ease.' The great-grandfather and Mitchell family patriarch was an amputee who used a wheelchair.
' Hers is a familiar anxiety, said Germán Parodi, co-executive director of The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies and the main voice behind the Disability & Disaster Hotline, which has received calls from people fleeing the L.A. fires. 'There's a fear of not knowing where to go, what to take with you,' he said. 'The sooner that organizations like mine know the needs, the sooner I can begin making sure it’s sourced locally.
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