[EAS] Source of the "scary" text in Suffolk Co

[Lucero, Mark]

They sent three EAS messages. Each one had text in the description element. I have not seen any clips showing the actual crawl yet.

First CAP alert contained the following:
<description>This is an emergency message from Suffolk County Office of Emergency Management.
Suffolk County has declared a state of emergency in anticipation of the arrival of Tropical Storm Hermine. Due to the forecast of potentially life-threatening storm surge on Fire Island and other storm conditions we are asking all those on Fire Island to begin a voluntary evacuation beginning immediately.
Full medical services have been removed from Fire Island and we are concerned for those with medical conditions.
Ferry Service to and from the island may be suspended as early as tomorrow at 1pm due to severe weather so you are urged to make arrangements to leave Fire Island prior to that time.</description>

Second CAP alert contained the following:
<description>Voluntary Evacuation of Fire Island ONLY disregard previous message</description>

Third CAP alert contained the following:
<description>UPDATED Message - Voluntary Evacuation of Fire Island ONLY by 1pm Sunday 9/4/16</description>

v/r
Mark Lucero, CISSP
Chief, IPAWS Engineering
FEMA National Continuity Programs
202-646-1386 (w)
202-257-1364 (bb)
mark.lucero at fema.dhs.gov
ipaws at fema.dhs.gov
 

From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net on behalf of Sean Donelan

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> I'm still curious about displays from video providers that may have only
> included the EAS header and <instruction> information, and not the content
> from the <description> element.

After doing some more research, without actual on air recordings, I think
I've figured out the "scary text" part.

The CAP message contained only the following public text fields: WEAtext,
Sender Name and Description.  It did not contain an Instruction field.

It appears that some (how many is still unclear) video EAS participants
broadcast a text crawl with only the FCC required header text
(Originator, Event, Location and time period).

And other video EAS participants broadcst a text crawl with both the FCC
required header text plus the CAP text (formatted according to ECIG).

Mobile devices displayed the WEAtext.

The system worked as designed.  But probably didn't work as the EM
expected.

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