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A Waffle House Index map prepared by FEMA during the February 2014 nor'easter, showing disruptions to operations in Georgia and South Carolina.. The index is based on Waffle House's reputation for having good disaster preparedness and staying open during extreme weather or reopening quickly afterwards.
An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...
FR-Alert. FR-Alert is a national-level mobile risk alert and emergency communication system implemented by Intersec [9] in partnership with the Ministry of the Interior in France. This system is designed to facilitate the efficient dissemination of critical alerts and safety information to citizens throughout the country.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently published its first National Risk Index, a multi-year project which assesses each of the country's 3,006 counties’ potential vulnerability to ...
Architecture of IPAWS. The program is organized and funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security. [4] The system allows for alerts to be originated by Federal, State, local and tribal officials, and subsequently disseminated to the public using a range of national and local alerting systems including EAS, CMAS and NWR. [5]
Current Alerts The National Weather Service has issued flood watches - shown in green on the map below - over much of California, except for the Mojave Desert and parts of the Central Valley.
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and AM, FM and satellite radio.
This ensures they are available even when the local system is down or overloaded. NAWAS has major terminals at each state Emergency Operations Center [3] and State Emergency Management Facility. Other secondary terminals include local emergency management agencies, National Weather Service field offices and Public-safety answering points (PSAPs).