[EAS] [] Daisy Chain

[Adrienne Abbott]

Redgy--

Chiming in here because this is something new...

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.

How are your emergency officials calling people's cell phones? Telephone
notification systems don't call cell phones, unless your emergency managers
have some way that people can "register" their cell phone numbers and get
them programmed into the system. Not everyone knows about that process and
not everyone calls and registers. Then there are your tourists and
visitors...Even the best telephone notification systems that use landline
numbers don't reach everyone and most officials don't assume that they do.
Like everything else in Emergency Management, public notification needs
redundancy. The more methods you use to communicate a consistent message,
the better chance you have of gaining public cooperation and the greater
your chances of saving lives. EAS is not a monopoly and emergency managers
need to understand that we are not saying that this is the only way to
communicate emergency information. It's just one more way and with CAP, you
can get broadcast, telephone notification, emails, text messages, social
media and even community sirens. 

Adrienne Abbott
Nevada EAS Chair
"Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires
constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN