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A long-awaited Los Angeles County investigation has examined what went wrong in the response to the L.A. firestorm, where the Palisades and Eaton fires wiped out large swaths of the city and county and left 31 people dead.

On Jan. 7, a series of fires broke out amid extreme red flag conditions, overwhelming first responders and residents. Thousands of homes were destroyed.

In the aftermath, a Times investigation revealed that neighborhoods in west Altadena, which was under siege from the Eaton fire, did not get evacuation warnings for hours after the fire started and well after some blocks were burning. Almost all of the deaths from the fire occurred in this area.

The report rel

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