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"This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test." "The following is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System." "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. Important information will follow this tone." Alternatively, the name "Emergency Broadcasting System" or "Emergency Action Notification System" could be used.
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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
An Alaska politician who likened health precautions during the coronavirus pandemic to Jews being forced to wear a Star of David in Nazi Germany apologized Sunday, saying his comments “have been ...
Essentially, what this means is that hundreds of millions of cell phones around the country made a screeching alert noise at approximately the same time today, beginning around 2:20 pm ET.
On March 21, 2020, Ketchikan, a small, coastal town of approximately 8,000 residents located in Southeast Alaska was determined to have a cluster of six COVID-19 cases. The town sheltered in place for the following 14 days. [7] On March 24, 2020, three more cases of COVID-19 were found in Ketchikan, bringing the total there to nine. [8]
In January 2010, the first live code testing of the EAS was conducted in Alaska. The first ever nationwide test of the system took place on November 9, 2011. In September 2010, FEMA announced IPAWS would be utilizing Open Platform for Emergency Networks (OPEN) to move standards-based alert and information messages between alert and warning systems.