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Laguna Beach officials stress immediate evacuation after reviewing Palisades fire response
Summary
At a town hall, Laguna Beach public safety leaders described lessons from the Pacific Palisades deployment, warned that local evacuations can take hours and urged residents to follow evacuation orders, pack go-bags and register for alert systems.
Laguna Beach public safety officials on Wednesday urged residents to evacuate immediately when ordered and outlined lessons learned from crews deployed to the Pacific Palisades fire, emphasizing narrow streets, limited routes and the need for individual preparedness.
The message came during a town-hall presentation led by Chief Jeff Calvert and fire Captains Pat Carey and Scott Hammond, who described the conditions their strike team faced in the Palisades and warned that similar wind-driven fires can move faster than residents expect. Calvert said Laguna Beach has invested heavily in mitigation efforts and that the city’s evacuation modeling shows evacuations can take hours under typical conditions.
The town-hall presenters said the city spent more than $25,000,000 on local wildland-fire mitigation measures and produced an evacuation modeling study that divides Laguna Beach into 22 zones and models multiple scenarios.…
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