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After faulty cell alerts during fire emergency, L.A. County overhauls its system
Los Angeles County's top emergency manager said Saturday the county's overhaul of its emergency notification system is nearly complete after it sent out a succession of faulty emergency alerts urging millions of residents across Los Angeles to prepare to evacuate amid the ongoing firestorm.
At Los Angeles emergency shelters, wildfire evacuees turn to community help amid uncertainty
"It’s hard to see, because there’s so much pain and suffering,” said one local, who dropped off toys at the Westwood Recreation Center in West Los Angeles.
Wildfire Evacuation Alert Accidentally Sent to Everyone in LA County
While the message was intended for residents of Woodland Hills, officials say the registration location of the phones might have caused a wider distribution.
Faulty evacuation alerts woke Angelenos in a panic. What's wrong with L.A.'s emergency system?
Emergency evacuation alerts have gone off the rails, pinging people seemingly at random. Experts say that such errors can sow mistrust in the alert system, potentially endangering residents down the line.
City-wide emergency alert in Los Angeles sent in error to millions
An alert designated to warn people of a fire northwest of downtown Los Angeles was sent county-wide, according to a local official. At the time, emergency management was monitoring the Kenneth Fire which triggered its own evacuations.
Another evacuation alert sent in error to phones of Los Angeles County residents
Beverley Hills residents received “another evacuation alert from the LA County Fire Department” but officials “confirmed this was another error."
Los Angeles Apologizes Over Fire Evacuation False Alarms
Emergency managers in Los Angeles apologized Friday after false evacuation alerts sparked panic in a city on edge over an unprecedented wildfire disaster.
LA County Fire mistakenly sends out emergency evacuation alert to entire county
The Los Angeles County Fire Department mistakenly sent out an evacuation warning to all of Los Angeles County Thursday afternoon, Jan. 9. “It was an error,” LACFD spokesperson Kaitlyn Aldana said. The alert caused many residents,
Another Los Angeles County evacuation warning was mistakenly sent out
Many in Los Angeles County perhaps woke up to a panic at about 4 a.m. on Friday as another evacuation warning was sent to smartphones throughout the area. This time, just like the one sent out on Thursday afternoon,
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What’s a State of Emergency? Here’s what it means when one is declared in NC
Gov. Stein has issued a State of Emergency for North Carolina. Here’s what that means and some past examples of declarations.
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A plumbing emergency ruined thousands of books, closing a North Philly hub’s library
The trouble was discovered on Christmas Day, when an eagle-eyed neighbor spotted water coming out of the door of Tree House’s ...
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Trump’s energy ‘emergency’ won’t look like Jimmy Carter’s
The last president to declare an energy emergency was Jimmy Carter, who in 1977 called U.S. efforts to confront a domestic ...
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MAP: Emergency room visits for respiratory illnesses are soaring in these states
A number of states are seeing a spike in hospital visits caused by respiratory illnesses as we enter the New Year.
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4 passengers injured as hundreds evacuate Delta flight by emergency slide in Atlanta
Roughly 200 people hurriedly deplaned from Minneapolis-bound flight 2668 on the tarmac at Atlanta International Airport after ...
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Delta passengers in Atlanta forced to evacuate plane on emergency slides amid winter storm
Flight 2668 had 201 passengers onboard, who were evacuated from the plane via emergency slides and taken back to the terminal ...
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US agency declares California wildfires a public health emergency
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday declared a public health emergency for California to address ...
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Southern California wildfires prompt more evacuations overnight; LA County declares health emergency
The expanding wildfires in Southern California have prompted more evacuation orders overnight while the Los Angeles County ...
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LA fire officials urge public to keep emergency notifications on despite erroneous alerts
L.A. County Office of Emergency Management said the alerts are not being sent by a person and his office is trying to find ...
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Fact Check: Human metapneumovirus in China is not ‘new,’ no state of emergency declared
A recent increase in cases of the human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in China has been misrepresented on social media as evidence ...
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