[BC] California Fires, How s everyone doing?

[Chuck Lakaytis]

My sister lives in San Diego County and they were warned by what she calls
the "reverse 911" system which I suppose allows the 911 operators to block
call folks in the affected area.

She and the family are in good shape, but she said that the Santa Anna winds
last night rolled over her 50 pound flower pots and rolled them across the
garden like they were feathers!

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
135 Cordova St.
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
907 277 6300  Office
907 277 6350  Fax
907 301 4339  Cell

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Robert Meuser
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:51 PM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] California Fires, How s everyone doing?


I can only tell you what they said on TV. "no one listens to radio 
anymore" Power was out so there was no TV and the cell was probably 
knocked out. This is why EAS is not all it is cracked up to be.

R



Mark Earle wrote:
> 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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