Fire marshal says project meets code; residents say evacuation modeling misses chaos
Deputy Fire Chief Jay Summerlin told council the Peaks project meets and in some cases exceeds fire code and that the evacuation study used conservative, worst‑case scenarios; residents who fled the Carr Fire disputed modeling assumptions and urged additional off‑site egress before approval.
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Deputy Fire Chief and fire marshal Jay Summerlin told the council the Peaks subdivision, as designed, "meets all fire codes and actually exceeds it in several areas." He described the city's approach to evacuation modeling, saying engineers were given worst‑case weather, wind and fuel‑moisture inputs and that the city now uses tools such as Genesys Protect to identify staged safe zones and manage zone‑by‑zone evacuation.
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