[EAS] TOE

[Sean Donelan]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Bill Ruck wrote:
> My knowledge of the E991 system is that there is a dedicated tandem
> switch somewhere for a geographical area E911 service.  Take out that
> switch and there is NO E911 service for that area even if there is
> still local dial tone.

In April 2014, there was a muli-state, multi-hour E911 outage affecting
81 PSAPs in seven states, including Washington, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Minnesota, and Florida.

The FCC released a report on the E911 outage, but doesn't have a single
mention about the use of the Emergency Alert System.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-330012A1.pdf

Several individual county EOC's did use the Emergency Alert System to
send invidual EAS TOE (911-outage) messages for their specific counties. 
However, the local EOC's and PSAPs did not coordiate the EAS messages with 
other counties or the states. The result was some broadcasters and cable 
systems complained about multiple EAS interruptions for single county 
messages about the 911-outages.