New drone footage is giving a bird’s eye view of the devastation from the Eaton Fire near Los Angeles that scorched more than 14,000 acres and destroyed 9,000 structures.
June Isaacson Kailes lives 8 or 9 miles away from the evacuation zone for the Los Angeles wildfires. But even before the fires started, she had plans for how she’d escape in the event of a disaster. Isaacson Kailes, who has cerebral palsy, uses a mobility scooter and has a ramp so it can be put in her car or disassembled and placed in her husband’s vehicle. In a worst-case scenario, she’d keep it at home and leave without it.
helps with general preparedness, communicating with emergency operations during disasters, commenting on plans as they're developed and more. Another organization that helps disabled people during natural disasters is the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, which works with local governments, individuals, other nonprofits and the Federal Emergency Management Agency .
points out. Sometimes evacuation and temporary housing places them far from where they live, Parodi says. “Oftentimes, the location of the available hotels that make contracts with FEMA are a distance. It can be 30, 50 miles from the local supports from their neighborhoods,” he says. “This detaches people from local neighborhood support … from their communities, from their health care appointments.
notes that accessible housing was already difficult to find in the Los Angeles area, with only 2-5% of new units dedicated to accessible housing. “When people who were living independently in the community lose their home or when accessible housing is destroyed, a serious problem ... develops where people are ‘temporarily’ sent to places like nursing homes and never leave,” the organization says. Improved planning for disabled people There are 'pockets' of the U.S.
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