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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friend of mine told me a family friend stayed behind at their house to protect the house. IDK where this is but it was an evac area. I mentioned that's a dangerous thing to do. Then I learned [b]the friend also has a broken wrist, and someone else who is there is physically disabled[/b] (I forget  what the disability is). Reading about victims, most of them seem to be people who were doing basically the same thing. [/quote]

I am hoping that your friend's friend was not the mom I just read about, who had a broken arm (report said arm...could have been wrist) and tried to get her disabled adult son out but couldn't carry or drag him and he apparently couldn't walk enough to leave.

This situation has already shown how disabled people are incredibly disadvantaged whenever there is a natural disaster. Two of the deaths were a father and son--both disabled. A third, adult son who lived with them was in the hospital when the fires began or he might have saved them. The disabled father and son died waiting for an ambulance that was supposed to evacuate them but never arrived.

Disabled activists are trying to spotlight how incredibly hard it can be to evacuate quickly if one uses any kind of mobility aid, or needs to haul things like essential medical devices or oxygen tanks (not everyone can afford the small, easily portable oxygen devices), etc.

I fully expect that, tragically, as they find more and more remains in the burned-out parts of LA, many of those will be remains of people who could not evacuate in time because of disabilities. [/quote]

Not that person, whom I read about before hearing this from my friend, but it did make me worry about the woman she knows. I also remember reading about several disabled or elderly people (some elderly who just did not want to leave), so sad. [/quote]

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