[EAS] Boulder County declined State of Colorado's offer to send emergecy alert

[Sean Donelan]

Published: 3:54 PM MST January 26, 2022

As found with the California opt-in notification systems, less than 20% 
of the notification calls or text messages were confirmed as received. 
That is less than 20% of the less than 20% of people who signed up for the 
opt-in system.  Opt-in notification systems and social media are great for 
non-emergency notifications like school closings, trash pickup changes, 
traffic accidents and road closures.

Other states could learn the lessons from the 2016 Tennessee wildfires, 
the 2018 California wildfires and now the 2021 Colorado wildfires.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/boulder-county-emergency-alert-marshall-fire/73-420ce785-7e9e-487b-93c9-6de11b9a4d5a

Micki Trost, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Division of Homeland Security 
confirmed to 9NEWS reporter Steve Staeger that the state's Office of 
Emergency Management offered to send emergency alerts using the state's 
Wireless Emergency Alert system. Those are the text messages that get sent 
to cell phones similar to an Amber Alert. According to Trost, the Boulder 
Office of Emergency Management declined the offer because they were 
already using their Everbridge system.