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Facebook is blocking emergency warnings as wildfires roar through West
The Post has collected more than 40 examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during at least 20 wildfires since June.
And it’s not happening just to people in Hutchinson’s rural and extremely fire-prone community 135 miles north of San Francisco but to volunteer responders, fire and sheriff departments, news stations and disaster nonprofit workers across California and in other states, according to screenshots. Its fire and sheriff departments are already stretched thin, Hutchinson said, so they’re not always able to post information in real time, making the county’s Facebook groups and pages even more vital, particularly to those who are older and not as tech-savvy. Not even 20 minutes after the Boyles Fire popped off in Clearlake, for example, firefighters were rapidly evacuating hundreds of people, including an entire Walmart, and requesting 15 additional engines, two extra air tankers and a helicopter.
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