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Silver Alert is a public notification system in the United States to broadcast information about missing persons – especially senior citizens with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other mental disabilities – in order to aid in locating them.
Mattie's Call was patterned after the AMBER Alert system created to locate missing, or abducted children. It uses public-service announcements on radio stations, displays on publicly controlled signaling devices and transmissions to law-enforcement agencies in an attempt to locate the missing endangered person.
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
A Silver Alert had been issued in Waukesha County for a man who was last seen at his Brookfield assisted living facility Friday afternoon. He has since been located safe.
A Silver Alert has been issued for a critically missing 67-year-old Milwaukee woman. Frieda M. Walton was last seen Saturday morning at 1 a.m. near the intersection of North 25th Street and West ...
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A new code by the FCC could help bring more missing adults back home safely. Several states have their own systems in place for the vulnerable.
Silver Alerts also use variable-message signs on roadways to alert motorists to be on the lookout for missing seniors. In cases in which a missing person is believed to be missing on foot, Silver Alerts have used Reverse 911 or other emergency notification systems to notify nearby residents of the neighborhood surrounding the missing person's ...