[BC] California Fires, How s everyone doing?

[Mark Earle]

Robert Meuser wrote:
>  From what one california official said in the media this morning, 
> 'nobody is listening to radio anymore' they had to send cops out with 
> bullhorns to evacuate people, the media is just not cutting it. So in 

Did 'they', the officials, use their EAS alerting capability? 'They' 
seem to know how to send out Amber Alerts. A properly working EAS alert 
would, at least, go out on every AM, FM, TV transmitter in a given 
region. It would also "crawl" on cable systems even if folks were 
watching CNN.

Anyone listening anywhere would hear the alert. Anyone watching would 
see the alert.

I suspect (can someone confirm yes/ no) the EAS was not used.

I can't fathom that no one was listening to some radio station in a 
neighborhood - or in their vehicles. No one watching TV. That does not 
add up.

Also, did they ask NOAA to initiate an alert via the VHF NOAA radio system?

In other words, if they did do those things, I would be astounded that 
no one responded. If they did not do those things, then they got the 
response that is to be expected. The public are not mind readers!

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