{"id":2491189,"date":"2025-09-25T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/communication-policies-caused-delays-in-la-fire-response-report\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:49:25","slug":"communication-policies-caused-delays-in-la-fire-response-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/communication-policies-caused-delays-in-la-fire-response-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication policies caused delays in LA fire response: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fcommunication-policies-caused-delays-in-la-fire-response-report%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=2491189&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the report on Los Angeles County&#8217;s response to the January wildfires reveals that outdated communication and training policies caused significant delays in emergency efforts. Commissioned after the Eaton and Palisades fires,which resulted in over 30 deaths and widespread destruction,the 133-page autonomous review identified multiple weaknesses,including inconsistent practices,communication vulnerabilities,and a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >slow evacuation alert process involving multiple leadership levels<\/a>. Even though no single failure was found, the county&#8217;s emergency management was transitioning to new alert systems unfamiliar to most staff, contributing to the challenges.The report underscores the heroism of frontline responders while calling for clearer policies, better training, integrated tools, and enhanced public communication to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-calls-for-investigation-into-impact-of-nws-staff-cuts-on-texas-flood\/\" title=\"Schumer calls for investigation into impact of NWS ... cuts on Texas flood\">improve future emergency responses<\/a> and restore public trust. It did not investigate the fires&#8217; causes,which remain under scrutiny. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/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\">Communication and training policies caused delays in LA fire response: Report<\/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\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2233478\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a> suffered from a lack of up-to-date emergency&nbsp;alert systems and communication resources during the county&rsquo;s response to January&rsquo;s devastating wildfires, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-escalates-harvard-probe-to-examine-plagiarism-claims\/\" title=\"House intensifies Harvard investigation to investigate plagiarism allegations\">independent review found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report was commissioned by county supervisors just weeks after the Eaton and Palisades fires killed more than 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes, schools, businesses, and places of worship across Los Angeles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3824685\/trump-signs-executive-order-tiktok-deal-us\/\">Trump signs executive order allowing TikTok to continue operating in US<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3825142\/jessica-chastain-not-aligned-apple-pulling-the-savant\/\">Jessica Chastain &#8216;not aligned&#8217; with Apple pulling The Savant amid political violence uptick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3825393\/illinois-lawmaker-physician-push-back-trump-tylenol\/\">Illinois lawmaker, physician pushes back on Trump Tylenol announcement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The 133-page <a href=\"https:\/\/file.lacounty.gov\/SDSInter\/bos\/supdocs\/207915.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> found no &ldquo;single point of failure&rdquo; but outlined several weaknesses that it said hindered Los Angeles County&rsquo;s emergency response efforts, including &ldquo;outdated policies, inconsistent practices and communications vulnerabilities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While frontline responders acted decisively and, in many cases, heroically, in the face of extraordinary conditions, the events underscored the need for clearer policies, stronger training, integrated tools, and improved public communication,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>County officials stressed that the report was not released to blame any one entity.&nbsp;The report emphasized the hard work firefighters did to combat fires in the face of high winds.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t about pointing fingers. It&rsquo;s about learning lessons, improving safety, and restoring public trust. Survivors of the Eaton Fire deserve answers &mdash; and today&rsquo;s report is an important step toward delivering them,&rdquo; said Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose district includes Altadena, a historic neighborhood that saw extreme damage in the Eaton fire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Office of Emergency Management had been transitioning to new emergency notification software that only a few staff members were familiar with at the time of the fires. The report additionally found that the process to communicate an evacuation decision to the public was slow and convoluted. <\/p>\n<p>The decision also involved a number of leadership roles across county-level departments.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Palisades Fire, the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Sheriff&rsquo;s Department had identified areas requiring an evacuation, which they then communicated to members of the County&rsquo;s Office of Emergency Management at the Incident Command center. That person then made a phone call or sent a text message to another emergency management staffer located in the Emergency Operations Center, who then updated the system, which was in place by the third-party vendor.<\/p>\n<p>This process was what triggered an alert to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3789511\/judge-trump-deployment-national-guard-los-angeles-violated-federal-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JUDGE RULES TRUMP DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL GUARD TO LOS ANGELES VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report also found a gap in the county&rsquo;s policies about who is leading alerts for residents to know about how to prepare for extreme weather risks. The county had sent out several warnings about the incoming Santa Ana winds and messages from the National Weather Service, but the report found that there was stand-alone preparedness messaging from Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n<p>The report did not look into the causes of the six fires that burned Los Angeles, which remain under investigation.<\/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> <\/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>Outdated communication policies delayed LA wildfire response: report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2491190,"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\/02\/la-fires.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[15554,9419,64073,36585,4600],"class_list":["post-2491189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-communication","tag-delays","tag-fire-response","tag-los-angeles","tag-policies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/la-fires.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491189","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\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491193,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491189\/revisions\/2491193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}