[EAS] [] Daisy Chain

[Reginald Swedberg]

Adrienne,

You and I know this and I think they know it, but do not want to do anything about it.  Do not know why, just what we get.  I do not care if it is EAS, an  announcement or whatever, just get me the information to put on the air to communicate with people.  As for for calling peoples cell phones, not sure, but seemed to be just an excuse to get rid of us, maybe they were meaning reverse phone call, but that can miss a lot of people.

As you can tell there gets to be a level of frustration at  this.  I want to be careful because there are people that are trying to get this happening and they are making progress at the state and other areas- but this one area seems to be nothing.  I do not want frustration in one area to be detrimental to good things that are happening.  I also want to make progress here.  I would really like to get broadcast representative involved in the planing and 'boots on the ground' exercises.  Have tried before but so far no results.

Redgy

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Adrienne Abbott <nevadaeas at charter.net> wrote:
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>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