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We are about 10 miles from the fire and about 5 miles from people who have been evacuated. Frustratingly, one of the best sources of information about the fire
by ogre_codes 6y ago
We are about 10 miles from the fire and about 5 miles from people who have been evacuated.
Frustratingly, one of the best sources of information about the fires has been community meetings and content posted on Facebook by the agencies involved. Often those same community meetings and PSAs about the fire have been bracketed by non-stop streams of people reposting this same bullshit about the fires.
In general, I think posting siloed content is really bad policy by government agencies, but in this case it's particularly bad. I don't see this as a failure of the fire agencies—it's not their job to be a platform for delivering content. The problem is our government lacks effective channels for delivering this content outside of these silos.