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Today at 2 p.m. EST, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will conduct the first nationwide Emergency Alert System test.
According to Phil Petree, president of NeighborhoodWatchAlerts.com, “The important thing to know about this test is that FEMA is using a code for an actual emergency so the text at the top of the television screen may indicate that an ‘Emergency Action Notification has been issued.’ This notification is used to disseminate a real national alert and in this case, the test. Because this is an actual alert code, the background image that appears on video screens indicating ‘This is a test’ may not appear, and when users flip channels and see or hear the alert on all channels the fear is this could cause uninformed users to panic and call 911.”
To help people understand this test and what they can do to help, NeighborhoodWatchAlerts.com has prepared a frequently asked questions page that contains information and links to the FEMA site. The page can be found at www.neighborhoodwatchalerts.com/help/eastest.
- Neighborhood Watch Alerts
Today at 2 p.m. EST, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will conduct the first nationwide Emergency Alert System test.
According to Phil Petree, president of NeighborhoodWatchAlerts.com, “The important thing to know about this test is that FEMA is using a code for an actual emergency so the text at the top of the television screen may indicate that an ‘Emergency Action Notification has been issued.’ This notification is used to disseminate a real national alert and in this case, the test. Because this is an actual alert code, the background image that appears on video screens indicating ‘This is a test’ may not appear, and when users flip channels and see or hear the alert on all channels the fear is this could cause uninformed users to panic and call 911.”
To help people understand this test and what they can do to help, NeighborhoodWatchAlerts.com has prepared a frequently asked questions page that contains information and links to the FEMA site. The page can be found at www.neighborhoodwatchalerts.com/help/eastest.
- Neighborhood Watch Alerts
