The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Thursday released an after-action report on the devastating January wildfires, focusing on alert notifications and evacuation policies.

The 132-page independent report , commissioned by the board and completed by the McChrystal Group, did not identify a "single point of failure" in the county's efforts to warn and evacuate residents as the Eaton and Palisades fires broke out Jan. 7.

Instead, it found a series of weaknesses, such as "outdated policies, inconsistent practices and communications vulnerabilities." According to the report, those factors hampered the effectiveness of the county's response to the fires.

The report noted that the hurricane-force winds that grounded firefighting aircraft and caused power outages also played a

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