[EAS] EAS in the County?

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> As a trained spotter for over 35 years, I value the importance of knowing
> where you are even though it's not always practical to do so at any given
> moment.

Without extensive training, ordinary people's situational and locational 
awareness is not very good. Spend a shift sitting alongside a 9-1-1 PSAP 
dispatcher, callers often don't know where they are, where the problem 
they are calling about is. Even automatic location systems give confusing 
locations - the famous examples of the Atlanta olympic park bombing and 
the more recent Washington DC Navy Yards shooting where dispatchers 
didn't know where to send responders because the locations didn't appear 
in the dispatch systems and the public didn't know the street addresses of 
the area.

That's one reason why leadership and guidance how public alert and warning 
systems are expected to work is necessary.  Assuming everything will work 
right, doesn't work.