More related detail to follow.
FYI
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.
sounds more like you pause
Does this mean they don’t use the Air Raid sirens like they used to? I miss those drills.
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..............
If there is an EMP attack, the country will be in severe menopause.
What does this have to do with the FCC’s ability to, with the flip of a switch, take over, or preempt every radio station in the United States. I was somewhat bowled over when a local broadcast engineer related the information.
Is this something new? We still have our AM dials set to the Conelrad stations.
Additional info on the NYC 09/17/2016 Constitution Day bombing:
Actual IPAWS WEA text message & parameters:
http://ipawsnonweather.alertblogger.com/?page_id=2
Alert: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami
Posted by grandpah on 19 September 2016, 11:56 am
Event: Civil Emergency Message
Sender Name: Taylor Winkler
Issued: 2016-09-19T07:54:45-04:00
Expires: 2016-09-19T09:45:00-04:00
WEA Text: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male. See media for pic. Call 9-1-1 if seen.
Description: WANTED: AHMAD KHAN RAHAMI, 28-YR-OLD MALE. SEE MEDIA FOR PIC. CALL 9-1-1 IF SEEN.
Urgency: Immediate
Severity: Extreme
Certainty: Observed
Categories: Security,
Area Description: Bronx
Area Description: Brooklyn
Area Description: Manhattan
Area Description: Queens
Area Description: Staten Island
Message Identifier: NR074405222091916
CAP MessageType: Alert
Filed under CEM
The first Amber alert I got on my reasonably intelligent though not smart phone scared the stuffing out of me. The system overrides the phone’s settings and turns the volume to 11.