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  • New Yorkers soon to get emergency cell phone alerts in what Bloomberg calls 'quantum leap forward'

    05/10/2011 10:19:00 AM PDT · by shanevanderhart · 30 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | 5/9/11 | Erin Einhorn
    Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city. If Times Square needs to be evacuated because of a bomb threat or if a hurricane is bearing down on Queens, warnings will be bounced from cell towers. "Making sure that [people] get useful and life-saving information, quickly and easily, right on their mobile phones, will help more people get out of harm's way when a threat exists," said Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator W. Craig Fugate. The system - called PLAN or Personal Localized Alerting Network...