[EAS] Wildfires -- Colorado re-learning the lessons California learned

[Dave Kline]

https://www.weather.gov/nwr/eventcodes

According to this list, fires are not weather related codes. I wouldn't expect NWS to track or report a fire any more than I would expect them to send a Blue alert. It's great if they can and do, but I don't think that's their job.
I think rather than giving NOAA the stink-eye, someone should be directing these questions to local Emergency Managers.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 1:00 PM Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Robert Bunge wrote:
>> I've been watching events with interest, I have a lot of NOAA friends
>> who live in Louisville, a popular suburb of Boulder because of home
>> costs in Boulder.  I've stayed at hotels in Louisville many times.

>Learning lessons from the Califonria wildfire (and other states), due to
>wierd jurisdictional choices, NOAA sends public alerts for water-events
>(flash floods, dam breaches) but not for fire events (wildfires).

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