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Attorneys representing the family of Stacey Darden, an Altadena resident who perished in the Eaton fire, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, alleging that the software that Los Angeles County uses for emergency alerts was defective and failed to alert her to leave in time.

The complaint, filed more than 10 months after the Eaton fire engulfed Altadena, targets the emergency alert software company Genasys, and blames the company’s predesigned evacuation zones, or “polygons,” for causing residents east of Lake Avenue from getting timely evacuation orders the night of the fire.

While the lawsuit also blames the Southern California Edison utility company for starting the fire with

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