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  2. Hook flash - Wikipedia

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    Pick up phone handset (causing the line to be off-hook). Hear a dial tone. Dial the first number and greet the first party. Press the hook flash button (or quickly tap the on-hook sensor on the phone). Hear a stutter dial tone (a series of beeps followed by another dial tone). Dial the second number and greet the second party.

  3. Fact check: Apple's latest iPhone update keeps Emergency ...

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    This week, users took to the internet to falsely claim that an update by Apple will shut off the Emergency Alert System on iPhones. Fact check: Apple's latest iPhone update keeps Emergency Alert ...

  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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    The alert was followed by dead air, and then audio from designated station 720 WGN in Chicago being simulcast across almost every television and radio station in the Chicago area and throughout much of Illinois. A confused Spike O'Dell, host of the station's morning show at the time, was heard on-air wondering "what that beeping was all about".

  7. Life Alert Emergency Response - Wikipedia

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    Life Alert's alarm monitor phone device offering includes an answering machine unit with a emergency call button, a call cancel button, an on off switch and a wall plug in, connected to a telephone line and a pendant-shaped device, typically worn on a necklace or a wristband.

  8. What 'secret' loudspeaker codes mean at department stores - AOL

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    This "code" is one of many innocuous sounding secret codes that stores use to alert employees to problems without distracting you from shopping.

  9. First Alert - Wikipedia

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    First Alert is the retail brand of American safety equipment manufacturer BRK Brands, Inc., [1] established in 1976 and based in Aurora, Illinois, with a production plant in Juarez, Mexico. Products sold with the brand include carbon monoxide detectors, smoke alarms , fire extinguishers , and other safety products like flashlights and fire ...