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Disastrous inequality: when a disaster strikes in Southern California, the effects to residents will be devastating, and even more so to the region's poor.
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, a televised emergency announcement came on Channel 7 at 7:30 pm. The announcement urged residents to prepare to evacuate in 20 minutes because of a tsunami warning following an earthquake north of Oregon.
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"It came out on one channel. Nowhere else," remembered Jesse N. Marquez, 54, a lifelong resident of the Harbor area. Mystified, he wrote letters to his city councilwoman and the mayors of Long Beach, Los Angeles, Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach.
"No one got back to me. What was their emergency plan?"
Los Angeles, an epicenter for urban disaster planning, is building ...
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