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Sierra Madre outlines Eaton Fire response, forms Fire Safe Council and expands emergency programs
Summary
Mayor Robert Parkhurst said Sierra Madre’s coordinated response to the Eaton Fire enabled an early evacuation and has transitioned into a structured recovery, including FEMA coordination, a newly formed Fire Safe Council and expanded emergency-notification systems.
Mayor Robert Parkhurst said Thursday that Sierra Madre’s rapid emergency response and interagency coordination during the Eaton Fire allowed the city to be the first in the area to order evacuations and begin recovery work. “We were the first city to evacuate the Eaton fire,” Parkhurst said, crediting the emergency operations center, the fire department’s outreach systems (Genesis and Nixle), and early reservoir pumping by the water department.
The mayor described a sequence of response and recovery steps: activating the city’s emergency operations center; deploying public-notification systems; coordinating with CERT…
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