[EAS] "improving" EAS?

[Sean Donelan]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Clay Freinwald wrote:
> There is something about human nature that tells a person to avoid things
> rather than rush  to help.
> We see this all the time -

Holiday fire emergency information could have been quicker
https://www.keyt.com/news/safety/holiday-fire-emergency-information-could-have-been-quicker/766351364

[...]
"In fact KEYT prior to 9:14 pm issued something on their Facebook,  about 
the evacuation,"  said Wolf.  A few minutes later in the discussion, 
Supervisor Das Williams said,  "If KEYT got something out faster than our 
emergency personnel got out alerts,  something is not happening fast 
enough."

[...]
"At the emergency operations center KEYT is often on the TV screens which 
helps authorities verify with an image something they may have been told 
by a citizen or weather report.

The board did not address other issues beyond social media and live TV 
coverage.

There were no questions about radio coverage and staffing at the time of 
the disaster. Several stations on the dial at that hour on a Friday night 
are automated and do not broadcast live breaking news.

For residents without a TV, radio is their main media source."
[...]