AI6YR Ben<p>LA Times: California<br>Elderly, disabled were left stranded during L.A. fires as evacuation plans broke down (paywall)</p><p>"...What followed was a frantic DIY rescue effort. City and county officials had no such registry, so DCRC and other groups improvised, calling Ubers and Lyfts, even autonomous vehicles, to pick them up. ..</p><p>After reporting from The Times revealed that west Altadena did not get official evacuation alerts until nearly nine hours after the Eaton fire started, L.A. County delays in alerting and evacuating vulnerable residents are now the subject of multiple investigations. They have also raised questions of whether officials could have done more to help those in need.<br>...."</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-29/la-me-la-county-emergency-planning-disabled" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/california/story/2</span><span class="invisible">025-03-29/la-me-la-county-emergency-planning-disabled</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EatonFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EatonFire</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/PalisadesFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalisadesFire</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a></p>