Probe pushes on into why Altadena residents’ alerts were late during Eaton fire

A consultant group hired by Los Angeles County to investigate why Altadena residents didn’t receive evacuation alerts until nearly nine hours after the Eaton fire broke out is expected to give a second update to the Board of Supervisors no later than July 27.

Since early February, the McChrystal Group has been working on an independent review of the county’s emergency-alert notification systems to better understand the delay in evacuation alerts.

Timely evacuation orders may have...