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El Paso County adopts evacuation-modeling tool as wildfire threat grows
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Commissioner Bill Wysong said the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management announced acquisition of evacuation-modeling software called Ladders to help fire districts, law enforcement and first responders plan and run evacuation exercises after years of destructive wildfires.
El Paso County Commissioner Bill Wysong said the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management announced May 13 that it acquired evacuation-modeling software called Ladders to help fire districts, law enforcement and other first responders plan and run evacuation exercises.
Wysong, who represents District 3 and survived the Waldo Canyon Fire, said the tool will take months to be adopted across agencies but will give emergency managers estimates of how long large-scale evacuations would take and permit tabletop exercises to test options.
The software purchase follows high-profile wildfires in the region and beyond. Wysong cited Waldo Canyon, which destroyed hundreds of homes…
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