[EAS] CA Fires/EAS Activation

[Paul Campbell]

Regarding the decision of the Santa Rosa officials to "not activate EAS" for the fires, I'm a little curious just how that would've been done had their decision gone the other way.

I'm literally an entire country away on the other coast, and I'm trying to play this whole thing out had all of this devastation happened here and Virginia Beach officials decided to "not activate EAS". Yes, in the aftermath people would be screaming for heads on platters, but if the local EOC here HAD made the conscious decision to activate the EAS (I'm leaving WEA out of this), I'm struggling to figure out how exactly they'd do it. 

One of the stations in my cluster is the area LP-1, and as such I monitor a variety of sources including the State Relay up in Richmond, PEP, CAP, NWS, EMnet, and our area LP-2. If fires west of here kicked up as bad as they did out in Sonoma, what is my local EOC's pathway in for EAS to warn the area to evacuate? Would this come from the SR? No. PEP? Definitely not. CAP? No. NWS? Of course not. Local officials aren't going to call my studio hotline with this evacuation alert (they don't know me OR my hotline, and even if they did there's no way to authenticate), so this pretty much leaves EMnet to carry an evacuation alert that I would then auto-forward...but how would the local EOC get this alert pushed through EMnet so I could forward it?

Is it possible that there's a similar situation out in Sonoma, and maybe even all over the country? Thanks.