[EAS] Wildfires -- Colorado re-learning the lessons California learned
Barry Mishkind
barry at oldradio.com
Fri Dec 31 14:10:10 CST 2021
At 12:49 PM 12/31/2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
>During the 2018-2019 california wildfires, Local california emergency officials used social media and "opt-in" methods such as twitter and facebook, but didn't realize how those social media methods only reached a minority portion (usually less than 25%) of the public in time.
Wasn't it just a couple of years ago in Boulder itself
that fires raged while the EM used reverse 911 to
try to reach people in areas where the phone lines
burned and the cell towers lost power ... and
people ignored "recorded" calls?
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