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

[Sean Donelan]

I suspect you will find the same problems with any region with a combined
population over 18.3 million.  Mutual Aid Agreements are necessary, but 
are rarely exercised enough.

The After Action Report findings for any disaster with more than three
responding organizations are almost always predictible.

Every major metro area in the USA is a crazy patchwork of government 
agencies. Doesn't matter which state.  At the opposite extreme are rural 
areas with part-time emergency responders, and no funding.

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Aaron Read wrote:
> 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.