F5.6: During the 2025 fires, the responsibility to issue evacuation orders was split among several agencies, including the City EMD and the County OEM, resulting in an uncoordinated emergency response.

What should residents consider about Finding F5.6: F5.6: During the 2025 fires, the responsibility to issue evacuation orders was split among several agencies, including the City EMD and the County OEM, resulting in an uncoordinated emergency response., and the County’s response?

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (consolidated County departmental response)Response dated 2026-09-01Audit assessment: Addressed

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Audit context

What the response says and how it was assessed

Response says

County agrees with the finding about split evacuation-order responsibilities and uncoordinated response during the 2025 fires, expressly for County operations only.

Audit analysis

Explicit County-scoped agreement requires no disagreement explanation; no added reasoning or supporting basis is supplied. Report physical PDF page(s) 232; County response physical PDF page(s) 45. Claims remain attributed; adoption date is not a filing or receipt date.

Finding-response score

Document completeness and usefulness—not factual verification or a legal conclusion.

6/10

4/4

Statutory elements

Stated position: 2/2
Applicable disagreement elements: 2/2

2/6

Public usefulness

Coverage: 2/2
Reason specificity: 0/2
Support traceability: 0/2

Explicit County-scoped agreement requires no disagreement explanation; no added reasoning or supporting basis is supplied.

Scoring confidence: high

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Report page 232 Response page 45

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F5.6: During the 2025 fires, the responsibility to issue evacuation orders was split among several agencies, including the City EMD and the County OEM, resulting in an uncoordinated emergency response.

What the response says and how it was assessed

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F5.5: F5.5: The City EMD and County OEM do not have a fully functional Alternate Emergency Operations Center, resulting in a lack of operational effectiveness and redundancy should the primary EOC be unusable.

F5.1: F5.1: The City EMD’s and County OEM’s responsibilities are not well understood by some elected officials, making it difficult for these departments to secure adequate funding and staffing.