A “series of weaknesses” — including “outdated policies, inconsistent practices and communications vulnerabilities,” hindered Los Angeles County’s emergency-alert system in sending timely notifications to residents in Altadena and Pacific Palisades in the hours after fires that became massive broke out in both communities, according to a third-party report released on Thursday, Sept. 25.

The months-long review by Virginia-based McChrystal Group “did not identify a single point of failure in the county’s efforts to warn and evacuate residents in the face of multiple simultaneous fires in areas around the County” the county’s Board of Supervisors said in a statement.

The board is scheduled to review the 133-page report at its Tuesday, Sept. 30, meeting.

“While frontline responders acted d

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