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Originally posted by lunarlunacy
Does anyone know what text (verbiage) was used in the message?
Originally posted by junglejake
Originally posted by lunarlunacy
Does anyone know what text (verbiage) was used in the message?
There was none. It actually happened twice around 7:30 here, and really annoyed me because it interupted the radio program I was listening to. Twice.en /quote] There was text that scrolled repeatedly.
As aired on WLSTV ABC7-------The Emergency Action Notification Network has issued an Emergency Action Notification for the United States beginning at 9:33 am and ending at 9:45am[WLSTV]
There is a video up at www.abc7chicago.com... and it states The President is the only one able to administer this real code script ----
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to have an effective, reliable, integrated, flexible, and comprehensive system to alert and warn the American people in situations of war, terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other hazards to public safety and well-being (public alert and warning system), taking appropriate account of the functions, capabilities, and needs of the private sector and of all levels of government in our Federal system, and to ensure that under all conditions the President can communicate with the American people.
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But the White House order calls for "an integrated alert and warning system that reaches as many Americans as possible through as many forms of communication as possible -- television, radios, PDAs, cellphones, et cetera," said Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke. "We're talking about a quantum leap forward."
The program would be managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Analysts have said that bureaucratic inertia and turf fighting among government agencies and resistance from industry to new mandates have stymied changes since 2001.
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On February 1, 2005 someone inadvertently activated an EAS message over radio and television stations in Connecticut telling residents to evacuate the state immediately. Officials at the Office of Emergency Management announced that the activation and broadcast of the Emergency Alert System was in error due to possibly the wrong button being pressed. "State police said they received no calls related to the erroneous alert."
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Despite these safeguards, the system was accidentally activated at 9:33 AM EST on February 20, 1971. A system operator accidentally "played the wrong tape" during a test of the system. As a result, an EBS activation message authenticated with the codeword "HATEFULNESS" was sent through the entire system, ordering stations to shut down and broadcast the alert of a national emergency. A cancellation message with the wrong codeword was sent at 9:59 AM EST, and a cancellation message with the correct codeword was not sent until 10:13AM EST. This false alarm demonstrated major flaws in the EBS system. Many stations had not received the alert, but more importantly, the vast majority of those that did ignored it. The only station in the country that shut down as mandated by FCC rules was WSNS-TV (Ch 44) in Chicago. The operations manager in charge refused to play the attack warning. Numerous investigations were launched but few changes were made to the EBS.
Originally posted by racerzeke
Emergency alert system test just popped up for new york on my sirius radio, I've never heard it before in 2+years.
Although there was a voice that said it was a test, probably no relation just odd
Originally posted by tyranny22
... but, I bet they get the code right when testing New York.