[EAS] Daisy Chain

[Reginald Swedberg]

Clay,

I do not want to just complain and not get something done, also do not want to discredit those that are trying, but would like some ideas how to progress.

We do have a LECC and SECC.  The state seems to be trying harder.  At the local level the broadcasters and cable were and are on board but have been discouraged so just don't feel like doing much with it.

At the last local meeting the main thing that came up was between the different entities that issue alerts - what they can not do or do not want to do, because it may make to much work for there dispatch centers, or insinuating (That is my turf and the other agency's better not step on it)

It seemed that whatever the broadcasts brought up that we could do, they did not want to.  It does not take long before the broadcasters just say, if you don't want it we are not going to care about it.  If you ask what they want to do you just get ignored.

I have asked to be part of the planning and training, but that is also ignored, never comes about, or we forgot to include you.

How do you get the local people that should originate messages to be part of the system.

Example - last summer there was a forest fire - people were calling our station to find out about it and if people were being evacuated.  They would not provide us with any information, or announcements telling us that -  we will call peoples cell phones if we need to alert them - and that was all we would get.  If asked about other people or a general announcement the answer was it is not important for them to know, they are not directly affected.

Redgy

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Clay Freinwald <k7cr at blarg.net> wrote:
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>Responding to Redgy's post -

>I agree with you, but it seems not very many people in our area do.  The
>local emergency management has left the impression at meeting they do not
>  Hard to push uphill from the end of the
>chain.

>Redgy -

>EAS is 'supposed' to  be a - cooperative - between the source of warnings
>(emergency management etc) and those that distribute those messages to the
>public (NWS, broadcaster and cable etc).    The EAS, at the state and local
>levels,  should not be a government run system.    Again this is the reason

>If I can be of help - Let me know

>Clay Freinwald