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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.
Notify NYC. Notify NYC is the City of New York's official source for information about emergency events and important City services. It is a free service launched by the NYC Emergency Management and New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) [1] in 2007, allowing users to receive alerts through various communications devices, such as cell phones ...
ALERT FM messages are currently being broadcast via Satellite on the digital data sub-carriers of over 1100 radio stations in 14 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia) and British Virgin Islands.
A shelter-in-place warning for New York City in October 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy. [30] A child abduction alert in the New York City Region on June 30, 2015, for a three-year-old girl who had been abducted. [31] 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings – A wanted alert was issued in New York City with a suspect's name two days after the ...
Many universities have adopted mass text message services to alert students of emergencies in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. Now the FCC has approved plans to create a national SMS (text ...
Reverse 911 was developed by Sigma Micro Corporation, later known as Sigma Communications, in 1993. [2] After a number of corporate acquisitions, Motorola Solutions ultimately gained ownership of the technology and rights developed by Sigma, and Motorola has folded Reverse 911 into their Vesta suite of public safety systems.
An emergency communication system that's designed for non-technical users will ensure successful administration and usage; and during some life-threatening emergency situations, campus administrators must be able to react quickly and trigger the alert system swiftly. Yet emergency alert is probably among the least used and least familiar processes.
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.