[EAS] Boulder County CO uses WEA/EAS for latest wildfire evactuation

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Wed Mar 30 02:01:31 CDT 2022


Alert origination software vendors and emergency officials still need lots 
of training how their systems work (AND) don't work.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/wildfire/boulder-colorado-wireless-emergency-alerts-go-further-than-intended/73-0a693ec8-3d43-43af-b677-161c34d5d468

Boulder's wireless emergency alerts went much further than intended during 
NCAR fire

On Sat, 26 Mar 2022, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Today (March 26, 2022), Boulder County CO used WEA and EAS as part of its 
> public alerting during the wildfires near Eldorado Springs and National 
> Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).  This is west of the Marshall 
> wildfires in January 2022, when Boulder County emergency officials used 
> opt-in subscription alerts.



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