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2. Here's why FEMA sent an emergency alert to your cellphone today

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   Cellphones, TVs and radios across the U.S. simultaneously blared out an emergency alert today. Here's what to know and why it happened.

3. City-wide emergency alert in Los Angeles sent in error to ...

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   Just before 4 p.m. Thursday local time, cell phones rang out with emergency alert tones warning residents to evacuate – a mistake that county officials blamed on technical problems.

4. Emergency alert test – live: Government reveals why phone ...

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   Millions of people across the country received the first-ever nationwide test of the government’s new emergency alert system today.. While the alert was scheduled to go out at 3pm, many mobile ...

5. 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 ...

6. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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   On January 13, 2018 at approximately 8:07 a.m. HST, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) mistakenly issued an emergency alert warning of a ballistic missile inbound threatening the region, which was claimed to be not a drill. 38 minutes later, it was announced by HI-EMA and the Honolulu Police Department that the alert was a false alarm.

7. Civil emergency message - Wikipedia

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   ncc111-301200- bulletin - eas activation requested civil emergency message north carolina emergency management agency relayed by national weather service greenville-spartanburg sc 322 am edt wed may 30 2018 the following message is transmitted at the request of mcdowell county emergency management and the north carolina emergency management agency.

8. A ‘dangerously unacceptable breakdown’ led to errant or ...

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   “Genasys, a vendor that operates the software for the County’s emergency alert messaging, is part of our review and is conducting testing to determine how the original notification was sent ...

9. Evacuation immediate - Wikipedia

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   The warning can replace a Civil Emergency Message, Fire Warning, or other warnings when required. Weather radio receivers, EAS Equipment boxes, and TV scrolls will display EVI alerts as immediate evacuation, and any text-to-speech voices from the EAS boxes will read the alert as "immediate evacuation" rather than "evacuation immediate". [1]