L.A. County’s evacuation alert system broke down during fires. It’s part of a larger problem
Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles ...
California Wildfire Survivor Who Watched His 'House Burn' Uses Experience To Help L.A. Victims Navigate Rebuilding Their Lives
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Years ago, I watched my hometown burn. This song gave me hope.
It was there that I burnt my wrists under hot plates of chilaquiles waitressing at the Omelette Express and stood with my ...
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Will new bond funds be enough to rebuild Los Angeles schools — and all of California’s other crumbling schools?
Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte county fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of ...
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LA County's evacuation alert system broke down during fires. Why California has strugglee to do better
officials in Sonoma and Napa counties decided against sending such mass wireless alerts, worrying that they would cause county-wide gridlock and panic. Instead, they relied on an older system that ...
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Schools post-LA fires
Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of ...
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Connolly proposes bill to increase fairground funding
Assembly Bill 258 aims to allow more upgrades at the sites, which have come to be used as evacuation centers during natural ...
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Why the Evacuation Alert System Struggled During the L.A. Fires
Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after the fires first began to burn through their neighborhoods.
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How the Los Angeles fires could exacerbate California’s homelessness crisis
Jennielynn Holmes stood in the middle of a make-shift evacuation center when the scope of the crisis ... For several years ...