The Pasadena Humane Society has been inundated with pets evacuated from the Eaton Fire, exceeding their emergency preparedness capacity.
Pet owners displaced by the Eaton Fire waiting to shelter their pets at the Pasadena Humane Society on Wednesday morning. Pasadena Humane Society , one of the animal shelter s that have opened for evacuees affected by the Eaton Fire , has accepted some 100 pets by Wednesday morning since the fire broke out last evening in Altadena.
The shelter has an emergency plan in place for fires and other disasters, but the speed, spread and ferocity of the Eaton Fire has simply caught them off-guard, said Kevin McManus with the public relations and communications manager for Pasadena Humane Society. Pasadena Humane Society, one of the animal shelters that have opened for evacuees affected by the Eaton Fire, has accepted some 100 pets by Wednesday morning since the fire broke out last evening in Altadena. The shelter has an emergency plan in place for fires and other disasters, but the speed, spread and ferocity of the Eaton Fire has simply caught them off-guard, said Kevin McManus, the public relations and communications manager for Pasadena Humane. 'All the animals that have come in have been in good health — no burn victims or anything like that, so that's a positive,' McManus said.'The fire is so devastating and so widespread so quickly, we have an emergency preparedness plan that, um, we have to just kind of make them a little bit bigger,' he said. Pet owners who have been evacuated from their homes from the Eaton Fire line up outside of Pasadena Humane Society on Wednesday morning.On Wednesday morning, about 50 people with their pets were lined up outside of the shelter on Raymond Avenue in Pasadena, and a number of cars were parked on both sides of the streets with pets and their owners inside. Staff members were passing out forms for evacuees to fill out. One of them was Sheila Kretzel, who lives around Loma Alta Park in Altadena. She and her pitbull CoCo were evacuated Tuesday night.But what happens after is difficult to kno
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