[EAS] San Jose CA midnight evacuation order

[Sean Donelan]

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/06/san-jose-flood-silicon-valley-behind-the-curve-in-implementing-alert-system/

San Jose flood: Silicon Valley behind the curve in implementing alert 
system
While nearly every other county in the Bay Area has implemented a federal 
automatic cellphone alert system called IPAWS, Silicon Valley is still 
setting it up.

[...]
On the other hand, while Santa Clara County has been authorized to use the 
system for nearly two years, county officials said they haven't done so 
because the county hasn't developed a policy about how and when to use it, 
and has yet to retrain employees after a change in vendors.

"It will be part of our new system in place by the end of March, but 
currently it is not," said David Flamm, deputy director of the county's 
Office of Emergency Services. "The first step is getting people trained on 
the basics of the new system. The next step will be getting the dispatch 
center trained on IPAWS."

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