Upcoming IPAWS National Test (Emergency Alert System Wednesday, September 28 2:20pmEDT)

FEMA & FCC ^ | 09/19/2016 | Fema C. Amp

[MarchonDC09122009]

Upcoming IPAWS National Test

IPAWS will hold a national test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 at 2:20pm EDT.

[MarchonDC09122009]

FEMA just updated the IPAWS page today with this notice. Bookmark exercise date accordingly for this national cell phone alert exercise on 2:20 EDT September 28 2016.

More related detail to follow.

[laplata]

FYI

[MarchonDC09122009]

http://www.fema.gov/integrated-public-alert-warning-system#

During an emergency, alert and warning officials need to provide the public with life-saving information quickly. 

The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) is a modernization and integration of the nation’s alert and warning infrastructure and will save time when time matters most, protecting life and property.

Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and local alerting authorities can use IPAWS and integrate local systems that use Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standards with the IPAWS infrastructure. 

IPAWS provides public safety officials with an effective way to alert and warn the public about serious emergencies using the Emergency Alert System (EAS), Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio, and other public alerting systems from a single interface.  

View a list of IPAWS Organizations with Public Alerting Authority Completed in each state.

[BenLurkin]

sounds more like you pause

[MarchonDC09122009]

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea

Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) | Federal Communications Commission

“In passing the WARN Act, Congress allowed participating carriers to offer subscribers the capability to block all WEAs except those issued by the President.”

Alerts from WEA cover only critical emergency situations. Consumers will receive only three types of alerts:

Alerts issued by the President
Alerts involving imminent threats to safety or life
Amber Alerts

Participating carriers may allow subscribers to block all but Presidential alerts.
What do consumers experience when they receive a WEA?

A WEA alert is accompanied by a unique attention signal and vibration.

“WEA enables government officials to target emergency alerts to specific geographic areas – lower Manhattan, for example – through cell towers that broadcast the emergency alerts for reception by WEA-enabled mobile devices.”

[BenLurkin]

What could possibly be so all-fired important that the president demands we give him our involuntary attention?

Seriously, does he work for us or do we answer to him?

[PLMerite]

Does this mean they don’t use the Air Raid sirens like they used to? I miss those drills.

[doorgunner69]

I suppose if you are not of the sect that lives with their iFag phone on 24/7, you will miss out in this?

What a shame, had my old style phone on for all ofthe 60-80 minutes I was away from the house.

I feel SO out of touch..............

[MarchonDC09122009]

That hadn’t occurred to me til you mentioned it...
Think 1964 Time Machine Morlock Elio dinner time siren ;n)

Additional points of interest about WEA and IPAWS alerts:

1. FEMA updated their IPAWS Wireless Alert System home page two days before the 09/17/2016 Constitution Day Manhattan bombing. They have since updated it on Monday 09/19/2016 to include notification of the upcoming 09/28/2016 National Alert test.

2. FCC WEA Wireless Emergency Alert system home page info specifically mentions Manhattan as an example of employing cell phone alerts.

3. The Constitution Day 09/17/2016 NYC bombing is the first time the Wireless Emergency Alert cell phone system has been used.

Significant dates that relate to Sept 28 in case Jihad Johnny does some thing bad that day, will be posted shortly.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Significant dates that relate to Sept 28 and sudden jihad syndrome:
Note - there are no Islamic holy days on 09/28/2016.

At any rate, here’s what I found that coincides:

September 28, this day in history -

1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.

1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.

1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.

1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser’s temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.

1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

1996 – Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.

2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.

We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

[ETL]

"Alerts from WEA cover only critical emergency situations. Consumers will receive only three types of alerts:
Alerts issued by the President
Alerts involving imminent threats to safety or life
Amber Alerts

What could possibly be so all-fired important that the president demands we give him our involuntary attention?

It's like something out of an old 1950s-1960s Sci-Fi movie, or episode of Star Trek, where the "Ruler" of some alien civilization summons his subjects by way of a siren. The film The Time Machine immediately comes to mind. Also, several episodes of the original Star Trek.

"Who is Vaal?"
"Vaal is Vaal. He is – everything."

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And...

Star Trek: Return of the Archons ("It Is The Will Of Landru")
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Scene from The Time Machine (1960)

[Organic Panic]

We still have them in Hawaii. Fun fun.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Excellent pics from fine yesteryear sci-fi!

[Cobra64]

If there is an EMP attack, the country will be in severe menopause.

[ETL]

The prospect of a "message from the President alert" sent to my and everyone's cell phone just gave me the creeps, especially when considering the creep we currently have in the WH.

[Daniel Ramsey]

But in Hawaii or rather Honolulu they are used for tsunami warnings.

[Vermont Lt]

I am not sure I could get under my desk though. And if I do, I’d probably just fall sleep.

[Daffynition]

[P.O.E.]

[ETL]

Never seen that one. But it appears to be along the same lines. Was it good?