Whether or not their homes were among the 2,400 buildings that have burned, residents who had been laid off or whose business was slow prior to the fire are likely to use
the evacuation as their cue to start fresh somewhere else, says Joseph Doucet, dean of the University of Alberta School of Business.
Participants were asked to assess their past
evacuation decisions and preparedness activities and were questioned about their beliefs regarding the efficacy of different responses, potential reasons for preparing to evacuate and the importance of various
evacuation decision
cues,
as well
as their risk perceptions and risk attitudes.