{"id":2388914,"date":"2025-01-10T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-fire-department-sends-mistaken-evacuation-order-to-millions-of-residents-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:08:07","slug":"la-fire-department-sends-mistaken-evacuation-order-to-millions-of-residents-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-fire-department-sends-mistaken-evacuation-order-to-millions-of-residents-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"LA fire department sends mistaken evacuation order to millions of residents &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fla-fire-department-sends-mistaken-evacuation-order-to-millions-of-residents-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2388914&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Los\u200b Angeles County Fire Department issued a mistaken evacuation order that startled approximately 9.6 million residents, prompting them to leave their <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">homes amidst ongoing wildfires<\/a>. The director of the county&#8217;s Office of Emergency Management, \u2062Kevin McGowan,\u2064 clarified that \u200cthe error was not due to human oversight, but rather\u200c a \u2062&#8221;software\u2064 error\u2063 in the system.&#8221; He expressed his sincere apologies for the confusion and distress caused by the \u2062false alert, and\u200c assured the public that officials are actively working to identify \u2064the cause of \u200cthe malfunction and improve the software to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-marine-corps-general-issues-two-day-stand-down-for-all-aviation-units-as-f-35-mystery-continues\/\" title=\"Marine Corps General orders aviation units to halt operations for two days amidst ongoing F-35 mystery.\">prevent future \u200cincidents<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">LA fire department sends mistaken evacuation order to millions of residents<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1932159\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9PgILKSVG-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">California<\/a> officials apologized after millions of residents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Los Angeles County<\/a> were alarmed by a false alert to evacuate as wildfires rage. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The Los Angeles County Fire Department mistakenly issued a warning to roughly 9.6 million residents, alerting them to leave their homes late Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McGowan, the director of Los Angeles County&rsquo;s Office of Emergency Management, said the mistake was not due to human error. He blamed the chaos on a software &ldquo;error in the system&rdquo; and apologized for the incident Thursday evening, saying officials are still working to determine exactly why the error happened.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My deepest and sincerest apology &hellip; that everyone throughout Los Angeles County experienced with the wireless emergency alert that was sent out,&rdquo; McGowan said during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9PgILKSVG-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">NBCLA<\/a> interview. &ldquo;We are working with the software currently &mdash; troubleshooting it. I would like to express to everyone that we&rsquo;ve sent out a significant amount of emergency alerts throughout this entire wind storm and multiple fires&hellip; we are working to troubleshoot that to ensure that it doesn&rsquo;t happen again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The mistaken warning residents received just before 4 p.m. Thursday read: &ldquo;This is an emergency message from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued in your area.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9PgILKSVG-0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA County apologizes and explains why evacuation warning was sent to phones by mistake\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9PgILKSVG-0?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Hours later, the county&rsquo;s emergency department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ReadyLA\/status\/1877508206148112750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">posted<\/a> on social media that the alert &ldquo;to evacuate was sent in ERROR.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The alert spread across the entire city, with &ldquo;Times staff across the metropolitan area &mdash; from Long Beach to Echo Park and beyond,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-01-09\/emergency-alert-text-message-los-angeles-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">according to<\/a> the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>. The warning was only meant for residents of Calabasas and Agoura Hills and those within the West Hills community of Los Angeles, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/weather\/wildfires\/evacuation-alert-error-los-angeles-area-millions-residents-rcna187091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">NBC News<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many residents, already on edge by the fires that have displaced thousands of people and killed at least 10 people, directed their anger toward the county&rsquo;s &ldquo;incompetent buffoons&rdquo; in posts to X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thick, heavy smoke from wildfires shrouds downtown Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo\/Richard Vogel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8203;&#8203;&rdquo;Your failures will be remembered in history textbooks. Resign,&rdquo; one furious resident said to Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state&rsquo;s Democratic governor has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nycs-top-doc-apologizes-for-describing-mothers-as-birthing-people\/\" title=\"NYC\u2019s Top Doc Apologizes for Describing Mothers as \u201cBirthing People\u201d\">received sharp criticism<\/a> for his handling of the crisis. Gov. Gavin Newsom&rsquo;s (D-CA) administration and Los Angeles officials are also being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/infrastructure\/3282808\/california-democrats-criticized-for-holding-trump-proof-special-session-as-fires-rage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">scrutinized<\/a> for the policies they set in place leading up to the fires that critics argued helped fuel the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles on Friday to help the city deal with the disaster as it seeks to clamp down on looting that ensued after the fires. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1932159\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1932159\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA fire department issues false evacuation alert to millions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2388915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/southern-california-wildfires-jan-2025-los-angeles-skyline.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35224,48290,48174,48291,32076],"class_list":["post-2388914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-emergency-response","tag-evacuation-order","tag-la-fire-department","tag-mistaken-alert","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/southern-california-wildfires-jan-2025-los-angeles-skyline.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388918,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388914\/revisions\/2388918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}