[EAS] Fire

[Ed Czarnecki]

This raise is in interesting point.  Several major metropolitan areas are prodding the Commission to add capabilities to WEA that it just wasn't design to support.  Once such idea is crowdsourcing information back from the recipients to the authorities.
Perhaps some of these Municipal governments see crowdsourcing of information as a way to redirect such 911 calls over to a social media or WEA crowd sourcing path.

From: Dave Kline
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Does anyone else see an underlying problem when people respond to an EAS/WEA alert by calling 911 or other agencies?
What part of -you are in this county and this county is being warned-, do they not understand?
On the flip side, why an alert for so many that affected so few? Or did the alert not carry sufficient information?
Don't people, after getting an alert not check in with local media to get further information?
Isn't local media providing information after the door bell has rung?
Don't people understand that they should not call 911 to ask questions but only to alert to report an emergency of which they have immediate and first hand knowledge?
SETI is right to search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

Dave Kline   UNO-TV/Mav Radio/KVNO

On Sep 27, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
>In the
>Loma Fire, the area that's affected straddles two large counties and most of
>the people in those counties aren't affected by the fire but they would hear
>the activation and swamp 9-1-1 call centers, fire departments, law
>enforcement agencies, and other local officials with questions about "Does
>this include me? There's no fire where I am."

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