[EAS] Time to make the LP daisy chain an option

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Richard Rudman wrote:
> EM's get into trouble trying to manage and inform the public about an emergency from out of the impacted area unless such management and information is carefully coordinated.
>
> Oh, yes. Doing so kinda violates the underpinnings of ICS.

EMs get in trouble in major disasters because the local communications 
infrastructure is destroyed, and they don't have a plan how to inform the 
public using working infrastructure from outside the immediate disaster 
area.

The extreme focus on only local response creates tunnel vision. Mutual aid 
and leveraging all the resources inside and outside the disaster area is 
critical in a major catastrophe. When the local emergency operation center 
has to be abandoned by local EMs, and they have no way to notify the 
public because they only bought local systems is a problem.

In the Tennessee wildfires (which TEMA has never issued a lessons learned 
report), the local command center asked TEMA to send the alerts but TEMA 
never did because -- policy.