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Susana Barrios
From:Andrew Winger <arwinger@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, August 17, 2026 1:57 AM
To:Rick Moyer; Rudy Emami; Public Comment; Cory Wilkerson; Rafael Cobian; Ashleigh
Aitken; Natalie Meeks
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] 9 Exits on a Map. Only 2 in a Canyon Fire 2 Scenario.
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Rudy, City Council, and Mayor Aitken,
In a Canyon Fire 2-type wildfire coming from the east, East Anaheim is left with only 2 clearly available,
unobstructed evacuation routes.
That is the issue I believe Public Works is overlooking.
Public Works continues to point to 9 potential egress points. Technically, those points exist. But counting
every road that might be usable under some wildfire scenario creates a misleading picture of our actual
evacuation vulnerability.
The attached maps show what happens when we apply a Canyon Fire 2-type scenario:
Imperial/91 is not a normal Know Your Way evacuation route.
Serrano/Nohl Ranch has been closed during our last two evacuations, forcing traffic onto Nohl Ranch.
Two western exits merge shortly after leaving Anaheim.
The southern exits feed directly into evacuation traffic coming from Orange.
Weir/91 and eastern Santa Ana Canyon Road become threatened as an east-origin fire moves west.
The result is 2 clear, unobstructed evacuation routes — not 9.
There is also a serious unresolved issue with Orange. Orange directs evacuees from Serrano → Cannon → Via
Escola, but its published directional arrows simply stop before Meats. Anaheim is counting roads in this same
area as evacuation exits without clearly establishing where Orange's simultaneous evacuation traffic will go.
My concern is that Public Works is using worst-case evacuation demand without consistently applying a worst-
case evacuation network. A scenario with thousands of cars but eight available exits is not necessarily the
worst case. The worst case may be thousands of cars with only two routes remaining.
The question Council should be asking is not:
“How many potential exits can we identify on a map?”
It is:
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“How many functional evacuation routes remain during the wildfire scenario East Anaheim has actually
experienced?”
For a Canyon Fire 2-type event, I believe the answer is two.
KEY
Red Lines = Main East Anaheim Evacuation Arteries
Yellow Lines = City of Orange Evacuation Route
Blue Bubble = Unobstructed Exit Routes
Yellow Bubble = Shared Evacuation Routes
Red Bubble = Closed Evacuation Routes
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Thanks,
Andrew Winger
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