FEMA EAS Test Failures Points Out Much Room for Improvement
- John Cornelison
- November 10, 2011
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There were serious issues that presented the first nationwide emergency alert from working uniformly across the county. Some folks reported 30 seconds of dead air, others garbled audio. Some folks instead heard Lady Gaga’s ‘Paparazzi’!
It is good we had this test as it points out that there is lots of work to be done – likely in various state’s infrastructures.
More at:
- http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/11/eas-test-verdict-bust.html
- www.truthistreason.net/epic-fail-white-house-emergency-alert-system-plays-lady-gaga-paparazzi
- http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/09/fema-conducting-national-emergency-activation-test-today/
Quite a bit apparently! They don’t crow about it much, but they are fairly consistently busy apparently with some 4372 state-wide incidents to track last year! They only activated 14 times, but obviously spent a lot of time tracking activities throughout the state, but especially olde King County – with 865 of those 4372 incidents: 670 of our county’s incidents were Hazmat, 121 Search & Rescue, 73 Other & 1 Fire incident.