One thing that’s very clear from the LA fires is the urgent need to improve our public digital coms protocols. Evac orders and boil water notices were mistakenly sent countywide.
Prior to the emergency, County Fire recommended Genesys Protect (bit wonky) which has the evacuation layers and I believe is the underlying source of truth for other apps. But during the emergency everyone including electeds just used and recommended Watch Duty.
There’s strong norms and sometimes legal reasons that prevent public agencies from endorsing a specific private app, which is dumb in that Watch Duty is an ngo but those norms and rules weren’t made for the web with winner take all network effects.