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Custer County approves evacuation-route study contract to model wildfire evacuations
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The Custer County Board of Commissioners approved a contract to model wildfire behavior and evacuation traffic patterns across the county to guide resource placement and vegetation‑management priorities.
The Custer County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 22 approved a contract for an evacuation‑route study designed to model wildfire behavior and evacuation traffic to guide planning and resource deployment.
County Chair Bill Candid and emergency staff said the study will combine dynamic fire‑behavior modeling with traffic simulation to estimate “clearance time” for evacuations and identify locations where residents, animals and special‑needs populations are most at risk.
John Van Dort, introduced by the board as the county emergency officer, told commissioners the study will analyze vegetation, topography and wind scenarios…
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