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California fires: LA evacuees told to wait another week

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      The properties have been damaged beyond belief,
      Deutsche Welle
      Los Angeles County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella said at a briefing
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      I've been working since I was 16 and my goal was to pay off the house and retire,
      International Business Times
      Beasley told AARP
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      We evacuated not knowing our house was going to be on fire, but came back to ruins, it's gone,
      International Business Times
      Beasley told KTLA
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      I've been quoted maybe 5,000 [a month]. Some of my friends have talked to people and they said $6,000 plus and then one girl told somebody was charging $8,000,
      International Business Times
      Beasley shared
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      It's the first thing I've done in my life that I'm proud of,
      The Manila Times
      he told AFP
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      It's really sad on so many levels that when people are at their lowest and in their most difficult times, people are doing things like this,
      The Manila Times
      Shriver told ESPN
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      There was a group chat where everyone was complaining, getting mad, saying, 'why do they keep on locking us out of our homes?'
      The Manila Times
      Ronnen Miz told local broadcaster KTLA
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      I love doing this, helping the community by making up for the bad decisions I made in life,
      The Manila Times
      said Castro, who has a coveted spot in one of the fire training camps operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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      Robert Luna
      It's going to be a while,
      The Manila Times
      said Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna
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      The outdated alerts were cached in the system, and as they came back online, started being released to the public,
      CNN
      McGowan said
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      The first technical glitch is that it went out county-wide, instead of to the affected area,
      CNN
      said Bryan La Sota, emergency management coordinator for Los Angeles County’s Office of Emergency Management
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      We have added additional safeguards into the software to ensure this cannot happen within our platform,
      CNN
      In the meantime ... Genasys said
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      Whichever part of the country you are in … ask them, ‘Are we prepared? How are we prepared?
      CNN
      Galperin suggested
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      My own experience has been frustrating with this as well,
      CNN
      the former LA city controller said
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      We’ve made the preliminary determination that the (Friday) alerts happened as cell towers came back online after they were knocked offline due to this disaster,
      CNN
      said Kevin McGowan, director of Los Angeles County’s Office of Emergency Management
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      Los Angeles County shares our residents’ anger and frustration about erroneous emergency alerts,
      CNN
      the county said Friday
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      I got forwarded a notice by my husband, which said, ‘See the map below’ – but then there was no map,
      CNN
      In recent days, as his family received wildfire alerts from several different agencies ... Galperin said
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      We’re definitely working with our team to make sure that we put them in there,
      CNN
      he told CNN
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      An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued for your area,
      CNN
      the message read, repeating the same language as the errant message sent about 12 hours earlier
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      Ron Galperin
      This is a concern that people should have all over the country – be you in earthquake country or fire country or floods or hurricanes,
      CNN
      said former Los Angeles city controller Ron Galperin, who audited the city’s emergency alert system twice in the past decade