[EAS] CA Fires/EAS Activation

[Richard_Rudman]

Based on my history with emergency public alert and warning issues, and speaking as the Vice Chair of the California SECC, I could not agree more strongly with Art's "out of the box" thinking. The failure to warn syndrome is well documented in  research -- especially IMO in research done and published by Dennis Mileti. The evidence there for those who care to look at it. [ https://hazards.colorado.edu/biography/dennis-mileti ]

Like the SEMS program that came out of the Oakland Fire that among other things standardized hose couplings, definitions, and other elements of emergency mutual aid response here in California, this aspect of public safety screams out for a statewide strategy that homes in on moving our elected officials to respond to Art's question.

Richard Rudman

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 10:13 AM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:
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> So maybe this is the time for us all to talk with our local authorities and pose Paul's question in a slightly different form: " Had the Incident Commander made the decision to issue a public warning over all available channels (including EAS), how would he have gone about that?"  Current answers will, I think, be generally pretty unsatisfactory, but that will point us in the direction we need to go.