It could happen again: Why residents who fled Bay Area wildfires never got evacuation alerts
(WorldNews Environment)

Taylor Craig and his family had a plan for how they would evacuate ahead of a wildfire. They knew which vehicles they would take and what they would pack. They signed up for every alert system they could and watched closely for the word to leave. But as the lightning-sparked Hennessey Fire raced toward Craig’s northern Vacaville farm on the night of Aug. 18, those alerts never arrived. He and many of his Vacaville neighbors were forced to make harrowing last-minute escapes as the fire closed in, and now they want to know why. The answer lies in a problem that has for years hampered California’s ability to safely evacuate homes and neighborhoods in the path of deadly wildfires:...