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New Plans Seek to Streamline Building Evacuations
UC Davis Department Safety Coordinators, or DSCs, have worked together with Emergency Management to update the process and ...
5 best home inventory apps to protect your property in case of emergency
Home inventory and restoration apps help itemize and track every item in your home in the event you have to make an insurance claim after a natural disaster.
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Ellis County Child Care Task Force receives grant for first-aid kits, other needs
The task force was awarded a $30,000 grant from Child Care Aware of Kansas to, among other things, support the purchase of ...
Disaster evacuations can take much longer than people expect − computer simulations could help save lives and avoid chaos
The LA wildfires stand as a reminder that evacuating fast in the face of a disaster isn’t easy, even when you think you’re ...
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Castaic jail complex in wildfire evacuation zone; officials plan to shelter in place
But by late afternoon, when the flames had spread to more than 8,000 acres, Luna told The Times that he’d started making plans for a large-scale evacuation should one become necessary.
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L.A. County’s evacuation alert system broke down during fires. It’s part of a larger problem
A year later, when the Camp fire swept through the town of Paradise, officials did not use Wireless Emergency Alerts technology, opting for a system that sent out evacuation orders to less than a ...
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LA fires: Delayed wildfire evacuation notices prompt call for independent investigation into emergency alert system
The delay in evacuation orders has raised serious concerns about the effectiveness of the county's emergency response system.County Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath introduced a ...
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In western Altadena, where 17 wildfire deaths were reported, residents say evacuation alerts came late or not at all
“None of us got a red (mandatory evacuation) alert before we felt ready to leave our houses,” he told CNN Wednesday. “You know, we felt heat and fire and that trumps any alert. So a lot of ...