The quick turnaround raises questions about how much time county officials allotted to debug the software and train employees.

County fire or sheriff’s officials appear to have failed to set the alerts in motion, leaving many west Altadena residents to ...

Officials at LA County's Office of Emergency Management not to blame for west Altadena alert failures, sources say Rebecca Ellis, Terry Castleman and Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times Mar 12, 2025 ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County emergency management officials responsible for sending evacuation alerts were not instructed to notify west Altadena residents until long after the Eaton ...

By a unanimous 5-0 vote of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors ... both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said that before the debris is moved testing ...

We can see just how a disruption or a delay in notifications can literally lead to death for some,” one lawmaker says.

During a Tuesday, March 11, joint committee hearing on emergency management, legislators expressed concern over the faulty alert system that impacted L.A. County residents, asked whether it would ...

Read more: Faulty evacuation alerts woke Angelenos in a panic. What's wrong with L.A.'s emergency system? Just one person from the county’s Office of Emergency Management was sending alerts for the ...

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