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With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the Eaton fire’s rapid progress.

It was in this difficult environment that a group of emergency officials established a mobile command center to coordinate the fight against the Eaton fire and help get residents out of harm’s way.

The actions and movement of the mobile command center offer a window into the turmoil officials faced while battling the Eaton fire.

Other officers emerging from the mobile command units that Suffolk County police set up on the closed-off street also carried cardboard boxes of evidence back into the home but it wasn’t clear their contents.

Among other roles, he was a member of the department’s mobile command staff.