"Altadena Residents Slam Investigation into Eaton Fire Response as Biased and Flawed. A recent report by consulting firm Citygate Associates has concluded that Los Angeles County fire officials did not discriminate on the basis of race or socioeconomic status, nor did they delay in issuing evacuation orders during the devastating Eaton fire in Altadena last year. However, residents are pushing back against the findings, labeling the report 'pages of deflection' that rely too heavily on input from department insiders rather than actual residents who were affected by the disaster. Critics argue that the investigation's narrow focus on evacuation alerts and lack of community input undermine its credibility and fail to address the broader concerns about the response to the fire."
Altadena group pans report as ‘pages of deflection’ and cites reliance on ‘department insiders’ rather than residentsLos Angeles county fire officials did not discriminate on the basis of race or socioeconomic status and did not delay in their evacuation orders during last year’s deadly Eaton fire in Altadena, a consulting firm found on Monday.At the behest of the county and its fire department, the California-based firm Citygate Associates conducted an investigation into how evacuation alerts were deployed last January, after emergency response officials came under fierce scrutiny for reported delays. Continue reading...
