Following the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that claimed 17 lives, two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling for a third-party investigation into the county's emergency alert system. Concerns arose after it was discovered that evacuation warnings were not issued for some areas until the fire was dangerously close. Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath introduced a motion requesting the probe, emphasizing the need for transparency and improvement in disaster preparedness.
Two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling for a third-party investigation into the county’s emergency alert system in light of the discovery that all 17 confirmed deaths from theAt Tuesday’s board meeting, Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath introduced a motion requesting a probe into how and when those alerts were deployed in both the Eaton and Palisades fires.
“The east side of Lake, we got pretty timely orders,” Cipolla said. “The west side of Lake didn’t get any orders until the fire was right on them.” “This is a layered process and system intended to provide redundancy during local and widespread disasters,” the statement reads. The county’s internal investigation “will take months because it will require combing through and validating the call histories of the fire, interviewing first responders on the scene, interviewing incident commanders, and searching and reviewing our 911 records, among other essential steps, including obtaining feedback from all relevant sources.
“I did not receive a single phone call from my father. Even though he didn’t use the cellphone that much, he is still smart enough to borrow a phone to call me,” he said. “I had not received any messages from him. I know something bad would have happened.”Attorney Gerald Singleton of Singleton Schreiber said his firm is representing 300 Altadena residents in a lawsuit against Southern California Edison, the utility beingfor the start of the Eaton fire.
Singleton said it is too early to know if Los Angeles County is liable in anyway for the deaths that occurred, but he believes the ultimate responsibility lies with the utility allegedly responsible for the blaze.in the Palisades fire, where at least 10 people have died, were reportedly delayed as well and did not come until 40 minutes after some of the homes were already burning.
EMERGENCY ALERTS WILDFIRE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS LOS ANGELES COUNTY INVESTIGATION
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