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  2. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    On May 19, 2010, NOAA Weather Radio and CSEPP tone alert radios in the Hermiston, Oregon area, near the Umatilla Chemical Depot, were activated with an EAS alert shortly after 5 p.m. The message transmitted was for a severe thunderstorm warning , issued by the National Weather Service in Pendleton , but the transmission broadcast instead was a ...

  3. Civil defense siren - Wikipedia

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    Federal Signal Model 5 in Ballston Spa, New York, U.S.. Sirens are sometimes integrated into a warning system that links sirens with other warning media, such as the radio and TV Emergency Alert System, NOAA Weather Radio, telephone alerting systems, Reverse 911, Cable Override, and wireless alerting systems in the United States and the National Public Alerting System, Alert Ready, in Canada.

  4. Wireless Emergency Alerts - Wikipedia

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    An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...

  5. Siren (alarm) - Wikipedia

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    The electrically powered cylinder siren used to alert the town of Lowe­stoft during World War Two. The earliest way of summoning volunteer firemen to a fire was by ringing of a bell, either mounted atop the fire station, or in the belfry of a local church. As electricity became available, the first fire sirens were manufactured.

  6. Specific Area Message Encoding - Wikipedia

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    Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is a protocol used for framing and classification of broadcasting emergency warning messages. It was developed by the United States National Weather Service for use on its NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) network, and was later adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the Emergency Alert System, then subsequently by Environment Canada for use on its ...

  7. NOAA Weather Radio - Wikipedia

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    In the wake of the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, one of the key recommendations from the U.S. Weather Bureau's storm survey team, was the establishment of a nationwide radio network that could be used to broadcast weather warnings to the general public, hospitals, key institutions, news media, schools, and the public safety community.

  8. Common Alerting Protocol - Wikipedia

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    The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to many applications, such as Google Public Alerts and Cell Broadcast.

  9. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    <roblox! 0 rbxl Roblox place file [71] 65 87 78 56: e‡xV: 0 p25 obt PhotoCap Object Templates 55 55 AA AA: UUªª: 0 pcv PhotoCap Vector 78 56 34: xV4: 0 pbt pdt pea peb pet pgt pict pjt pkt pmt PhotoCap Template 50 41 52 31: PAR1: 0 Apache Parquet columnar file format 45 4D 58 32: EMX2: 0 ez2 Emulator Emaxsynth samples 45 4D 55 33: EMU3: 0 ...