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Boston Bombing Shows How Wireless Emergency Alerts Can Work with Other Media

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

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The best examples of best practices often come from real life.  Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) showed the rest of us strong best practices when they issued the shelter-in-place order last week.  

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FirstNet 101 – A Closer Look At NPSBN

By   /  November 27, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News  /  No Comments

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From A.W.A.R.E Broadband is a big issue for our readers–especially where it  intersects with alerts and warnings. You have probably read one of the more popular examples of how first responders will be able to use broadband, by allowing them to send and receive video and data. However, it is also being recommended that the FCC [...]

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IPAWS and CMAS Usage Update

By   /  November 19, 2012  /  #smem, Emergency Management  /  No Comments

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From A.W.A.R.E In a mid-November FEMA webinar, the alert and warning community received an update on the extensive use of the Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS) by the National Weather Service (NWS) over the last several months and an encouraging report from FEMA on the growing number of alert originators and alert origination service developers [...]

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University of Maryland to Study Effects of Emergency Text Alerts

By   /  October 9, 2012  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

From A.W.A.R.E As reported in Gazette.Net, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland recently announced receipt of an award of almost a million dollars  by the Department of Homeland Security. Researchers at START will study the effects of emergency text alerts sent to mobile [...]

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Do Alert Notifications Fail to Live up to Expectations?

By   /  October 4, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News  /  No Comments

Wildfires that threatened lives and property of Colorado residents in El Paso and Teller counties this year were the most destructive wildfires in state history — 29 square miles around Colorado Springs burned, destroying more than 340 homes, and causing two deaths and personal property damage exceeding $352 million. To facilitate evacuations, authorities used a [...]

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