[EAS] Training for local emergency managers issuing alerts

[Sean Donelan]

Local emergency managers have a difficult job.  They get no money for 
training, yet are supposed to make complicated emergency alert systems 
work perfectly every time.

Butte County, CA Sheriff's Office is learning how to use WEA/EAS after the 
wildfires last year.  For some reason, they keep using the "LAE" Local 
Area Emergency event code for their weekly tests instead of RWT for the 
last month or so.

There are twitter comments about EAS tests interrupting local 
broadcasters, by both the public and local broadcasters, so it seems to be 
a "known problem."  Can CALOES or someone in California help Butte County 
learn how to use its IPAWS system and how to do a weekly test?  It may 
just be a messed up configuration template in their alert origination 
software.