A CBS News investigation found at least a dozen natural disasters in the United States during the last decade where local emergency officials failed to issue alerts in time to save lives or, in some cases, didn't issue an alert or evacuation order at all. National investigative correspondent Stephen Stock reports.
  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Sounds about right. I live in fire country, and a lot of us were subscribed to the local emergency alert system.

    Then people started ignoring it when wildfire alerts were not being sent out on the system. That said, local authorities love to use the system to tell people about parade road closures and traffic.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      My understanding of what happened with the Maui fires is that they didn’t have a fire alert system, just a tsunami alert system, and they didn’t activate it because they didn’t want to cause people to flee inland towards the fire.

      Is that not correct?