Genasys Inc. announced that Los Angeles County has agreed to a 5-year contract that expands Genasys Protect EVAC utilization across the entire county to reduce evacuation time and improve speed of relaying public information to impacted areas. The Genasys Protect platform allows Los Angeles County to create targeted evacuation zones for the entire county, playing a vital role in emergency planning and coordination across fire and law enforcement organizations. Los Angeles County is the nation's most populous county with approximately 10 million residents (over a quarter of California?s population) living over 4,000 square miles, an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

Zone-based evacuation management offers significant benefits: Improves situational awareness by providing a common operating picture for first responders, Accelerates decision making time by identifying areas for protective actions, Enhances communication and collaboration with agencies during cross jurisdictional events, Integrates and displays zone-based maps on county and municipal websites and apps, Improves community awareness of evacuation planning efforts with real-time updates. Genasys Protect EVAC provides a comprehensive set of evacuation management tools that make it quick and easy for fire service, law enforcement, and OES/OEM to build and maintain evacuation plans, train using accurate evacuation simulations and scenarios and during a real incident, significantly reduce the time from incident recognition to community notification. Creating intelligent zones greatly improves response management across fire and law enforcement personnel and other emergency support agencies.

EVAC enables first responders to react swiftly, make informed evacuation decisions, and communicate critical evacuation and community status updates in real-time to other agencies and to the public. EVAC is the only platform that provides a unique set of data-driven decision support tools that help emergency responders determine the proper scope of an evacuation before issuing an evacuation order, replacing guesswork with intelligence. Purpose built for all hazards, Genasys Protect EVAC is a comprehensive solution for collaborative, inter-agency decision making, evacuation planning and public message formation.