[EAS] The California Fires - Another view

[Al Kenyon]

Found an interesting article on the California fires:

http://www.govtech.com/em/disaster/Firefighters-Officers-in-Sonoma-County-Ru
shed-to-Help-as-Fires-Destroyed-Their-Homes.html

This paragraph in the middle of the article was particularly interesting:

"As family and neighbors tried to escape, they encountered roads clogged
with panicked drivers and public safety personnel trying to keep people from
harm's way, fire sweeping westward - and over Highway 101 - toward Santa
Rosa's Coffey Park neighborhood."

Maybe this wasn't a case where large-scale mass alerting would have been
appropriate after all.

Al