The Butte County Sheriff says many residents still can not return home after the Bear Fire for safety reasons.
Sheriff Honea also talks about how evacuations are communicated to the public and how evacuation warnings and orders are decided.
To getting the word out about evacuations for wildfires, the butte county sheriff uses every possible avenue they can to alert residents.
The sheriff will always send deputies into an evacuated area to make sure residents are getting out.
They will go door-to- door if they can but if they are short on time, they will utilize a high-low siren which they have intalled since the camp fire.
This is helpful for those in remote areas with poor signal.
"but the first thing that we often go to is a technological approach.
We use our code red system, which we ask people to sign up for but in addition to that, we utilize i-paws, the integrated public alert and warning system.
Through there we can reach out to and hopefully conncect with cell phones that might be in the affeted area.
You can also have messages broadcast on television stations and radio stations and through our code red system, we can usually hit landline telephones, cell phones, if they've been registered, send text messages and emails if the people have opted-in for that."
The sheriff office also partners with local news media partners such as us here at action news now or getting the message through local radio stations.
The butte county sheriff also posts new evacuations on their facebook and twitter pages.
Coming up at 6, we'll have more on how the sheriff office decides when to lift evacuations and let residents back into the area.
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