The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to implement a set of recommendations aimed at improving emergency alerts and evacuations in the aftermath of January’s megafires .

In a lengthy and at times tense meeting, the supervisors heard the results of a so-called after-action report , which was released last week and laid out a number of failures during the devastating fires. The report highlights fragmented communication with the public, antiquated and ineffective technology and severe understaffing in the county's Office of Emergency Management. Those failures — combined with historically strong winds in a region that hadn’t seen significant rain in about eight months — were magnified by multiple simultaneous fires that stretched overtaxed agencies, the report said.

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