[EAS] LA Times: Reeling from the deadliest wildfire in a century Maui sees ghosts from Californias past

[Rich Parker]

I found this from RECNET.

Apparently there were some alerts sent, but no way (yet) of knowing if they were forwarded by stations covering the affected areas.

Surely some brave folks would be willing to share station EAS logs.

Otherwise, why are we spending so much time and money on this basically dysfunctional, and ridiculously expensive, system?

https://recnet.com/cap/?mode=alert&alert=1126571

One night conclude that we could all save a bunch of time, money, and aggravation by just doing the minimum - including just going off the air when bonafide alerts (not tests, RWT, RMT) are sent.

The vendors, in apparent coordination with the FCC, have us all by the short hairs - forcing us to pay, and pay, and waste time on specious upgrades.

I'm sorry, but I've participated in some early working groups, but in it's present state it is a joke and a giant time and money suck.

As the meme says:
"Change my mind"

Rich Parker
Director of Engineering
CoastAlaska, Inc

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 2:14 PM Adrienne Abbott nevadaeas at charter.net> wrote:
>Rich--
>The Hawaii Broadcasters Association is also concerned about the lack of what they called "timely warnings" from HEMA and the overall lack of information from officials on Maui.

>Those of us who live in fire country know what wildfires are like. The sad part is that Mauians have never been through anything like this because, well, Maui...it's green and it's lush and it rains every day. Nowhere in their experience is there anything that could have prepared them for something like a Paradise Fire. Now they not only have to deal with this tragedy, they have to prepare for a rainy season of mud slides and flooding. 

>Adrienne

>> On Aug 16, 2023, at 11:53 AM, Rich Parker richp at coastalaska.org> wrote:
>>
>> That article is pay walled, but this one is interesting:
>>
>> "Bachman said they got up to speed on the situation by listening to Hawaii-based Pacific Media Group's "Hawaiian Music 93.5" KPOA. It and other stations had to rely on information from listeners who still had phone service because they weren't getting much help from the local emergency services. "They had more information because they were on the scene, they had people around," she says."
>>
>> https://www.insideradio.com/free/media-journalist-on-vacation-in-maui-listening-to-radio-was-how-we-knew-whats-going/article_ec6aee3a-3ae6-11ee-a482-cb9e5792586d.html

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