L.A. County lacked coordinated plan, processes to guide recovery after 2025 fires, report finds
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Set us as preferred Facing the greatest disaster in Los Angeles history, the county government did not have the plans and procedures in place it needed to jump-start a recovery after the January 2025 fires, a new review found.The new report suggested a slew of reforms to ensure the region is better prepared for the next major emergency, and noted that — despite outdated or absent plans — county employees and partners worked hard to provide many of the resources and support that fire survivors needed, often under exceptionally challenging circumstances.
L.A.County employees and partners “carried this recovery, under extraordinary pressure and on compressed timelines,” the report found, navigating the immediate recovery of the Eaton and Palisades fires through “institutional knowledge rather than in a formal plan.”The report, which examined the first three months after the firestorm, is the second major after-action review ordered by the county Board of Supervisors and carried out by McChrystal Group, a consulting firm based in Alexandria, Va.Residents said that many of the findings reflect their experiences — and validate their fears as they work to rebuild in a region infamous for its wildfire, earthquake and flood risks.“Basically this report just confirms something that all of us ...
[knew] through our lived experience: There was no plan in so many categories,” said Sylvie Andrews, a fire survivor and advocate for Altadena’s recovery after she and many of her neighbors lost their homes on the west side of town last year.“L.A.
County doesn’t have a plan for disasters — that’s a ticking time bomb.”The report praised the work of county emergency employees during this period but concluded they were working with an inadequate playbook.“The County currently lacks an updated Los Angeles County Oper...