On this episode, we continue our review of the high-stakes incident and evacuation in Orange County, CA over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Some 50,000 residents were forced to flee their homes as a runaway thermal reaction built pressure and risk inside a local manufacturing facility.
We're joined by journalist Alexandra Datig, who covers news issues in Southern California, and also runs her own news site, FrontPageIndex.com. Alex was on the scene as emergency responders worked to stop the runaway reaction taking place in a chemical storage tank located not far from the famed vacation destination of Disneyland.
How well did emergency managers communicate the threats and requested evacuations to a population of 50,000 people? Alex walks us through her assessment of the communications response as she saw it over the course of six days.
We take a detailed look at the real communications choices that helped keep people calm while responders worked through uncertainty, rising temperatures, and fears of a potential explosion tied to methyl methacrylate (MMA).
Several community meetings were held during the incident. Did the responsible company, GKN Aerospace, participate in those meetings with local residents? Should they? We discuss those issues, along with the threats and upsides, of participating in a community meeting.
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