[EAS] Blue alert in California this week

[Larry Wood]

Our Sacramento radio station received a "Blue Alert" issued by NWS at the request of the CHP on Tuesday at 10:47AM. It was sent as a "Child Abduction Emergency," but the recorded message identified it as a "Blue Alert." Our San Francisco station did not receive the alert. As far as I know the California state plan does not include Blue Alerts. I had the operator kill the alert before it automatically aired. The LP1 and LP2 stations both carried the alert.
I'm not sure I have a question here. I just feel the system operates by different rules, at different times, in different counties and that leads to confusion on the part of our operators.

Cheers,

Larry Wood, CPBE
KQED-FM