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Wildfire Evacuations: Why Your Emergency Plan Might FAIL
Wildfire evacuations can turn chaotic in minutes. So how do emergency managers know when to issue an evacuation order, who should leave first, and whether the roads can actually handle everyone trying to escape?
In this episode of The Alerting Authority, Jeannette Sutton and Eddie Bertola are joined by Tom Cova, professor at the University of Utah and expert in wildfire evacuation analysis, emergency management, and geographic information science.
Tom breaks down the science behind evacuation modeling and explains why real-world human behavior can completely change an evacuation timeline. The…
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