Emergency Information and Resources on lacity.gov

lacity.gov routes emergency information through two layers: the main homepage, which surfaces current alerts as banners and cards, and emergency.lacity.gov, a dedicated subdomain where the actual hubs live. If you are looking for live updates on a fire, a heat wave, or preparedness steps, the homepage is the entry point but emergency.lacity.gov is where you will end up. The site is published in English.

What the homepage surfaces

The homepage carries a rotating set of emergency cards alongside its regular service links. Based on the current page content, these include:

• Boyle Heights Fire Information — described as "a central hub for information, updates, and resources," pointing to emergency.lacity.gov/BoyleHeightsRecovery
• Heat Advisory Resources — cooling centers, heat safety tips, and related resources at emergency.lacity.gov/heat
• September is National Preparedness Month — guidance on creating an emergency plan for yourself, your family, and your neighborhood at emergency.lacity.gov/preparedness-month

Each card is a short label plus a one-line description, and each links out to a subdomain page rather than hosting the detail on the homepage itself. That means the homepage is useful for noticing that something is active, but not for reading the full guidance.

The emergency.lacity.gov subdomain

This is the operational layer. The pattern visible in the homepage links is emergency.lacity.gov/<topic>, where the topic slug identifies the incident or campaign:

Because these are incident- or season-specific pages, the set of active hubs changes over time. A fire recovery hub stays up while recovery is ongoing; a heat page appears during heat events; preparedness content recurs around September. Treat the homepage cards as the current index rather than a fixed menu.

How to use this in practice

1. Start at lacity.gov and scan the emergency cards near the top of the page. If a card matches your situation, follow its link.
2. For heat events, go to emergency.lacity.gov/heat for cooling center locations and safety guidance. This is the page to check before a hot day if you need a place to cool down.
3. For an active incident, use the incident-specific hub (for example, the Boyle Heights recovery page) rather than general city pages — recovery updates, resource links, and status changes are consolidated there.
4. For planning ahead, the preparedness page walks through building an emergency plan for a household or neighborhood. This is the one hub that is useful year-round rather than only during an event.

What this structure does and does not give you

The two-layer design keeps the main site stable while letting emergency content change quickly. The trade-off is that you need to recognize that a card is a pointer, not the content — clicking through is required.

Two limits worth noting: the homepage evidence shows only these three emergency cards, so other incident types may or may not have a hub at any given moment; and the site content reviewed here does not describe sign-up mechanisms, alert subscriptions, or notification services, so do not assume the site pushes updates to you. Checking the relevant hub directly is the reliable method.

For non-emergency city services — trash pickup, graffiti removal, street issues — those are requested through the "Request City Services" path on the main site, not through the emergency hubs.