Drilling for disaster preparedness: Insights from a community wildfire evacuation exercise
本文分析了2024年美国科罗拉多州一个社区野火疏散演习的数据，发现90%的居民开始疏散需28分钟以上，完成疏散需48分钟以上，多数人遵循指定路线，少数人选择更短或更熟悉的路线，强调了演习对提升社区灾害准备和建模的价值。
Community evacuation exercises (or drills) are one approach residents and authorities use to train wildfire emergency procedures in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). This paper presents results from a drill performed in Roxborough Park, a WUI community in Colorado, USA, in 2024. Observer and self-report data were collected to derive resident preparatory actions, pre-travel, travel, and total evacuation times, as well as route choice and the drill’s impact on their perceived preparedness. It took more than 28 minutes until 90 % of residents began traveling and more than 48 minutes until 90 % had completed their evacuation. Most of the participants reported following the instructions for the evacuation route, with a minority taking a shorter or more familiar route. The work underlines the value of drills for improving community disaster preparedness, providing data for developing/testing computational models, and deepening our understanding of human behavior in wildfire scenarios.