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Understanding and Using Wireless Emergency Alerts

If you are not ready to employ WEA, maybe this will help you.

Rick Wimberly, a fellow blogger has a great blog post on Mysteries of Wireless Emergency Alerts Revealed.

I'm not sure how many emergency managers have actually integrated Wireless Emergency Alerts into their warning systems planning and execution. If you have not done so yet, now is the time to understand how it works and what the benefits and limitations of the system are.

 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.