[EAS] New EAS Forum posting: A vision for what to do now that the FCC has eliminated the GMC

[Tom Spencer]

Which is what should have been done back when Civil Defense became FEMA 
- or even earlier.

Certainly when the FCC opened up EBS for local and regional alerting, 
the state, county, and municipal agencies should have been brought on 
board with what it is and how to activate it, rather than leaving it up 
to the discretion of the stations.  Even just using the NWS as a 
must-carry wasn't good enough, although it did provide some sort of 
guideline, it still depended on the local station's personnel knowing 
whether or not any given watch or warning pertained to their listening 
area.  That was the one big advantage when EAS/SAME was introduced; it 
removed (most of) the ambiguity regarding the exact area of the alert.

As I recall at least one article on it, the system was supposed to be 
able to resolve warnings down to at least zip-code level, if not 
neighborhoods.....

Bill Ruck wrote:

> NUMERO UNO should be training.  FEMA and everybody in the emergency 
> services world needs to know what CAP is and how to use it.  CAP and 
> IPAWS and EAS needs to be fully integrated into incident management.
>   

-- 
Tom Spencer