Monday, March 21, 2011
COUNTY PURSUES NEW, IMPROVED PHONE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
A key tool in alerting Clatsop County residents about the potential threat from the Pacific tsunami on March 11 was the telephone-based emergency notification system (ENS).
The “reverse-9-1-1” system allowed local emergency managers to send out recorded messages to people in selected areas, informing them of the tsunami warning and urging them to prepare to evacuate to safer ground. The calls, beginning at about 2 a.m., went out to approximately 7,500 households.....Read Full Clatsop County News Release
COUNTY PURSUES NEW, IMPROVED PHONE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
A key tool in alerting Clatsop County residents about the potential threat from the Pacific tsunami on March 11 was the telephone-based emergency notification system (ENS).
The “reverse-9-1-1” system allowed local emergency managers to send out recorded messages to people in selected areas, informing them of the tsunami warning and urging them to prepare to evacuate to safer ground. The calls, beginning at about 2 a.m., went out to approximately 7,500 households.....Read Full Clatsop County News Release
1 comment:
Does this mean that the county is building (or has build, we never know) a multimillion dollar emergency operations center at Camp Rilea, while the reverse 911 system it bought several years ago no longer works? And, does this mean the county taxpayers will now get to pay for the new emergency operations center that may or may not exist AND a new reverse 911 system? I suppose these things are nice, but it sounds like the county will be making news releases about the need to replace things after we are all dead from a disaster. Who bought these things in the first place and who will be held responsible? The county seems to be holding the facts really close to its chest. Really, now, was it Sheriff Bergin?
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