I agree. I’d say though that redundancy is most important when planning for emergency preparedness. Here’s how I see the responsibility:
- camp ownership and management - buck stops there - no way they should have had those campers in bed asleep at 1-2am.
- city and county leadership should know the vulnerable parts of the city and county and the moment government outlets rang the alarm bell city and county resources - as limited as they may be - needed to be activated. Get the patrol cars, fire trucks, any other vehicles out and clearing the areas.
- I have no real blame for the state unless or except to the extent state representatives were mobilizing and not interacting with local leaders over night. The part about the state that pisses me off is the god almighty crap, thoughts and prayers, and if they lied about what was known and covered up negligence which I think they did.