Thanks, I didn’t know of their problems/limitations with their alert system. It still might not have been a bad idea, although a calculated risk, to automatically make automated wake up calls saying there are fires in the region that were getting out of control. I understand the initial “blow up” was at night when many were asleep.
I read an article about this problem and the sheriffs or whoever it was that made the decision were pretty wracked about it. It was not a cut and dried issue. They plan to make it better for next time, to be able to send alerts to more specific areas and so on.
Maybe they made the wrong decision, but they were apparently trying to do the best thing. And there was so little time, and new fires kept popping up.
Should have added - I can only imagine the dispatch calls.
I should think before hitting post...
Also early a lot of power and phone service including cell phone went down, adding to the mayhem.