[EAS] [] Daisy Chain

[Mike McCarthy]

All I can say is reverse 911 is an extremely dangerous and mis-understood
crutch. Especially in a areas where there is a great deal of transient
traffic. Such as major tourist, industrial districts, and/or urban
downdown areas.

Also, reverse 911 only works when people receive the calls. They're
useless when the calls are restricted by failed facilities, answered by
auto-attendants and voice mail, and are not sent to those actually in the
hazard area. The worst being a major public event where event management
doesn't have a direct link with the AJH or staff fails to respond.
Disaster in waiting and liability out the ying yang.

MM

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> Redgy--
>
> Chiming in here because this is something new...
>
> 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
>