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Rick Scott: “There was no evacuation plan that anybody seemed to follow.”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Published January 28, 2026 | Video Starts at 46:15

I got to drive in some of them. Traffic was gridlocked when panic residents tried to flee. And there was no sort of what they explained to me and you look at the video, There was no evacuation plan that anybody seemed to follow. Some questioned when I was out there, they said well if the fire department knew there was a fire risk in the area, why didn't they pre deploy trucks with water? (46:15–46:19)

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Asserts that there was no effective evacuation plan followed during the Palisades fire.

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