[sbe-eas] Why does California keep botching emergency evacuation alerts?

[Aaron Read]

I see left unsaid in this article is the crazy patchwork of government
agencies and municipal emergency management agencies that is guaranteed to
never work in cohesion well enough to deal with widespread fast-moving
emergencies (like wildfires) but will never be changed because it's part of
a deeply ingrained (political) power structure throughout California...and
especially in the Los Angeles region.  Which, as anyone who lives there
knows, is not one metropolitan area but 88 separate cities and towns in one
county, and most of which view each other with deep suspicion (if not
actual irrational...or even rational...hatred) in many aspects of their
existence, not just at the govt level.


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On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>
> LA Times continues its series on emergency alerts during the wildfires
>
> California, as a state, is probably the best trained and most effective
> user of emergency alerts in the nation.  Florida is probably second.
>
> The other states are far behind.
>
>
>
> https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-24/california-wildfires-evacuation-alerts-mistakes
>
> Why does California keep botching emergency evacuation alerts?
>
> [...]
> Today, jurisdictions across the state have adopted the up-to-date wireless
> alert technology., The federal system has also become more sophisticated,
> allowing operators to issue more precise, targeted warnings. But even with
> technological advances, problems remain.
>
> As massive fires engulfed the Los Angeles area this month, the problem was
> not that officials failed to use advanced technology. Instead, missteps or
> missed opportunities occurred in determining how and when to alert
> specific geographic areas.
> [...]
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