[EAS] The California Fires - Another view

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

And of course the origins of CAP lay in Singapore.  Back in 2001, pre 9/11, the Ministry of Home Affairs there hired a group of us to integrate television and radio broadcast, sirens, changeable message signs on roads and in light rail stations and anything else we could think of into a single coordinated public warning system.  They hadn't put out street corner loudspeakers, though.  But Lee Kwan Yew, the late former (and founding) prime minister was spending a lot of time shuttling between Beijing and Taipei in those days, so hopefully some of our design propagated.

(I used to joke that if anyone ever got to play Sim City with an actual city, it was PM Lee.)

Art

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From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Ed Czarnecki

Yes, they have that, but actually, China is also building its own national alert system, apparently borrowing liberally from "IPAWS".  Including their own version of an EAS encoder/decoder (they had a cute different name for it), plus WEA-style alerting, sirens/PAs and billboard/digital signage.