[ml/nj]

I hope this this doesn't turn out the way my town's emergency call system has. The police here can call every land-line at once with a broadcast message. There's at least one message every week. I already recognize when one of these calls is coming in because it's always two calls as I still have two land-lines here and they ring simultaneously. With the recent storm we probably had eight or ten messages last week. I think the last one was about having a Halloween Party at the town pool for the little crumb-crunchers who got cheated out of Halloween this year. There were at least two messages telling us what a great job the town maintenance crew was doing clearing the roads. No more than one in ten of these messages could even remotely be considered emergency information.

ML/NJ

[C210N]

No more than one in ten of these messages could even remotely be considered emergency information...

Sounds like there must be a commission that meets regularly, like 5 times per week, to discuss what messages to send out. Its got a chairman, vice-chair, secretary, treasurer. Paid well, could be union representation in there. Consultants they use: Acorn and others. This is emergency stuff, so the town probably bought and paid for hardened underground bunkers for them to meet in, and live in during a real emergency for them to deliberate making more emergency calls.

[goat granny]

Last winter the sheriff's dept put out a call to all phones in the area about looking for a missing man that walked away from home in ask assistance in finding him...the man had Alzheimer's....don't know if he was ever found alive or not. It was a robo call to call the dept if you spotted the person..

[ErnBatavia]

I’d start screaming at the mayor, city council and of course ‘city manager’....seriously.

[SovereignVA]

Haven’t they ever heard of crying wolf?