"...Working side by side with National Weather Service officials, an emergency management staffer around 4:30 p.m. had called for a cellphone blast across the Interstate 210 corridor — a stretch of foothill communities that includes Sylmar, Altadena and Sierra Madre — to warn people that they needed to prepare for dangerous winds. Even if a fire didn’t spark, trucks could topple. Limbs would certainly come down. Power lines could endanger residents. And if a spark did catch, it could quickly mirror the inferno that was engulfing Pacific Palisades, or worse.

It’s not clear what difference a prefire preparedness alert sent to residents before the Eaton fire would have made. But it could have added another element of urgency as perilous fire weather was beginning to overwhelm the region. ..."

#EatonFire #wildfires #disaster

@ai6yr
The defense of all of the actions and decisions made leads to one conclusion: they wouldn't do anything differently because they can't identify a point where they did anything wrong.

Of course, the implication of that message is that there's nothing to be fixed, so a bunch of people dying is the normal outcome and can be expected to happen next time as well.