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General (03) Susana Barrios From:Rick Moyer <dr.rickmoyer@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, August 14, 2026 9:11 AM To:Cory Wilkerson; Rafael Cobian; Rudy Emami; Ashleigh Aitken; Natalie Meeks; Lindsey Young; Public Comment Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Dudek Study Warning: This email originated from outside the City of Anaheim. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and are expecting the message. Dear Cory and Rafael: According to the Dudek report (P. 31-32), the primary evacuation route for Anaheim Hills is to head west on the 91. Unfortunately, there are a limited number of access points to get on the 91 from the AH area. Green River is out of the question since most fires come from this direction. Weir Canyon is good but always congested. Imperial is good but closed off on the Know Your Way Plan. Lakeview is good but under construction which will cause a major bottleneck. Serrano could be helpful to divert traffic towards Cannon or down Katella to the 55 but it is closed off on the Know Your Way plan. Instead of expanding our egress options and addressing shortcomings in the Know Your Way plan, you chose to challenge the UCSB study (peer-reviewed and published in a very prestigious journal) in order to tweak the findings to fit your agenda. This is incredulous and totally unacceptable as lives are at stake. Shame on you. -R -- Dr. Rick Moyer 1 Susana Barrios From:Rick Moyer <dr.rickmoyer@gmail.com> Sent:Saturday, August 15, 2026 7:02 AM To:Rudy Emami; Andrew Winger; Public Comment Cc:Cory Wilkerson; Rafael Cobian; Ashleigh Aitken; Natalie Meeks; Lindsey Young Subject:Re: \[EXTERNAL\] Dudek Study Rudy, you've known me for 10 years. Do you really think I would only look at one of the evacuation maps and draw conclusions? You made this assumption without asking me if I'd looked at the other maps. Our map says Serrano is closed at Nohl Ranch. None of the other maps mention it so one must conclude it is closed. Rafael explained that it is to keep Orange residents out. One of the other maps mentions that Imperial at the 91 will not be used for evacuations unless conditions dictate. But no one can tell me what those conditions are or who will decide. Why isn't Imperial/91 a central part of the evacuation? Do you have written agreements in place guaranteeing that Orange will allow AH residents to evacuate through their City? The bottom line is that the community is trying to tell the City there are problems with your evacuation plans but you don't seem to be listening. This past Thursday you were all very patronizing and defiant, treating us all like half-wits and shouting over us. Cory dismissed the UCSB study because "it was done by graduate students". Really? This was a peer-reviewed nationwide study trying to reduce wildfire related fatalities published in one of the most prestigious journals in the world. You should embrace the effort and strive to be a part of the solution. You have a chance to be a role model for other cities but not until you learn to listen.... Best of luck to all of you. Sincerely, Rick. On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 10:42 AM Rudy Emami <REmami@anaheim.net> wrote: Rick, I think the map you provided helps clarify where some of the confusion may be coming from. The Know Your Way map you attached is specifically for the Nohl Ranch/Canyon Rim evacuation area. The closures shown on that map are intended to direct residents from that particular area along the most likely evacuation routes and prevent traffic from moving back into or across the evacuation flow. For example, residents in this area would generally be directed west through Nohl Ranch Road, Meats Avenue and Via Escola toward the SR-55. That does not mean Imperial Highway to the SR-91, or the other connections shown as controlled on this particular map, are unavailable as evacuation routes for the entire Anaheim Hills community. In fact, the map specifically identifies the SR-91 off-ramps at Imperial Highway and Lakeview Avenue as being closed to inbound traffic in order to facilitate evacuation traffic entering the freeway. 1 There are separate Know Your Way maps for the Imperial Highway/Fairmont and Weir Canyon areas that identify the anticipated evacuation routes for those portions of Anaheim Hills. Taken together, the maps are intended to familiarize residents with the most likely evacuation route from their individual area, rather than identify certain roadways as permanently unavailable for evacuation. I do understand how looking at one map by itself could create that impression, and that is helpful feedback for us as we continue to evaluate how this information is communicated to the community. Thank you, Rudy From: Rick Moyer <dr.rickmoyer@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2026 9:51 AM To: Rudy Emami <REmami@anaheim.net> Cc: Cory Wilkerson <CWilkerson@anaheim.net>; Rafael Cobian <RCobian@anaheim.net>; Ashleigh Aitken <AAitken@anaheim.net>; Natalie Meeks <natalieameeks@gmail.com>; Lindsey Young <LYoung@anaheim.net> Subject: Re: \[EXTERNAL\] Dudek Study Sorry, here's the attachment. On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 9:40 AM Rudy Emami <REmami@anaheim.net> wrote: Good morning, Rick, Thank you for the additional comments. I agree with your underlying point that we cannot assume every evacuation route will remain available during a wildfire. Fire conditions, congestion, an accident, or traffic control decisions by another agency could all make individual routes unavailable. That is also how we understand the importance of the UCSB study. The value of having multiple independent routes is redundancy. The study recognizes that during an actual wildfire, routes may be 2 lost or become unavailable, which is part of the reason having multiple independent routes leads to better evacuation outcomes. In other words, the six-route benchmark is not based on an expectation that every route will remain available under every fire scenario. It reflects the benefit of having enough redundancy in the roadway network to provide alternatives when routes are compromised. When we applied the same methodology used in the study to Anaheim Hills, we identified nine independent routes. The expectation is not that all nine will be available under every scenario. For example, if three of the nine routes were unavailable because of fire conditions or other circumstances, six independent routes would still remain. That is exactly the type of redundancy the study is highlighting. I also agree that the Know Your Way evacuation plan should continue to evaluate how those routes function under different emergency conditions. A route being controlled or restricted under a particular evacuation scenario does not mean it should be disregarded when evaluating the overall redundancy of the roadway network. Emergency conditions will ultimately dictate which routes are used and how traffic is managed. I do want to be clear that our intent is not to challenge the UCSB study or adjust its findings to reach a predetermined conclusion. We took the concerns raised about the study seriously enough to apply its methodology directly to Anaheim Hills. That analysis identified nine independent routes, which provides useful additional information about the redundancy of the Anaheim Hills roadway network. I appreciate you continuing to raise these issues. Your comments regarding individual route availability and the Know Your Way plan are part of the record we are considering as we work toward completing the evacuation study. Thank you, Rudy From: Rick Moyer <dr.rickmoyer@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2026 9:11 AM To: Cory Wilkerson <CWilkerson@anaheim.net>; Rafael Cobian <RCobian@anaheim.net>; Rudy Emami 3 <REmami@anaheim.net>; Ashleigh Aitken <AAitken@anaheim.net>; Natalie Meeks <natalieameeks@gmail.com>; Lindsey Young <LYoung@anaheim.net>; Public Comment <publiccomment@anaheim.net> Subject: \[EXTERNAL\] Dudek Study Warning: This email originated from outside the City of Anaheim. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and are expecting the message. Dear Cory and Rafael: According to the Dudek report (P. 31-32), the primary evacuation route for Anaheim Hills is to head west on the 91. Unfortunately, there are a limited number of access points to get on the 91 from the AH area. Green River is out of the question since most fires come from this direction. Weir Canyon is good but always congested. Imperial is good but closed off on the Know Your Way Plan. Lakeview is good but under construction which will cause a major bottleneck. Serrano could be helpful to divert traffic towards Cannon or down Katella to the 55 but it is closed off on the Know Your Way plan. Instead of expanding our egress options and addressing shortcomings in the Know Your Way plan, you chose to challenge the UCSB study (peer-reviewed and published in a very prestigious journal) in order to tweak the findings to fit your agenda. This is incredulous and totally unacceptable as lives are at stake. Shame on you. -R -- Dr. Rick Moyer -- Dr. Rick Moyer -- Dr. Rick Moyer 4