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AI6YR Ben Dec 27

Interesting, a WEA for LA City made its way all the way up here.... half a county away. #WEA #IPAWS

AI6YR Ben Nov 26

CA Resiliency Alliance

Nationwide CodeRED Emergency Mass Notification Platform Outage

This email was sent to CRA subscribers interested in communications infrastructure and/or emergency communications.

The CRA has learned of an ongoing nationwide outage/disruption of the CodeRED platform that started on November 10, 2025, resulting from a cybersecurity incident that damaged the OnSolve CodeRED environment. This outage affects thousands of jurisdictions that utilize the CodeRED vendor managed software as their emergency mass notification platform to send emergency alerts by phone call, text and email to residents and local businesses.

This incident does not impact 9-1-1 services or the Emergency Alert System (Wireless Emergency Alerts, WEA, for cell phones and Emergency Alert System, EAS, for television and radio). Both remain functional.

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#EmergencyAlerts #CodeRed #WEA #IPAWS

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AI6YR Ben Nov 14

Aha, this is great. #emergencymessaging #wea #ipaws

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AI6YR Ben Nov 13

Oooh, this is a good one!

Federal Emergency Management Agency

PrepTalks: Dr. Dennis Mileti "Modernizing Public Warning Messaging"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYya009bc2M

#warningmessages #messages #fema #ipaws #wea

PrepTalks: Dr. Dennis Mileti "Modernizing Public Warning Messaging"

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AI6YR Ben Nov 13

This isn't it, but handle. the FEMA IPAWS message template generator. I guess someone needs to cache this before it gets blown up by the People In Charge.

https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system/public-safety-officials/toolkit/templates

#FEMA #IPAWS #alerts

Chris Lombardi Aug 29, 2025

[email protected] - ProPublica: Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It. Aug. 28, 2025, 5 a.m. EDT www.propublica.org/article/ipaw... #wea #ipaws #alerts #disasters #wildfires #wx

Local Officials Have a Powerfu...

Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.

ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late.

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AI6YR Ben Aug 29, 2025

ProPublica: Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.

Aug. 28, 2025, 5 a.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/ipaws-emergency-alerts-local-official-failures?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#wea #ipaws #alerts #disasters #wildfires #wx

Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.

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AI6YR Ben Aug 28, 2025

NPR: Public media stations in rural America say emergency-alert funding is in jeopardy

"...It's a similar story at public media stations across the United States. Tens of millions of dollars that Congress set aside to help broadcasters strengthen the country's emergency alert system are in jeopardy, according to public media executives, threatening to leave communities reliant on aging infrastructure as they face growing risks from extreme weather...."

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5519337/public-media-emergency-alert-funding

#FEMA #disasters #alerts #climateemergency #IPAWS #WEA