The reason for the emergency alert test is to make sure all systems are prepared in case a national emergency needs to be sent out to the public.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - This fall, every consumer cell phone will be a part of a nationwide emergency alert test. FEMA and the FCC have scheduled the drill for Oct. 4, 2023, at 2:20 pm Eastern time. You can expect your cellphone to receive an alert that reads: "This is a ...
Here's everything you need to know about the test today. What to know about the emergency alert test At around 2:20 p.m. ET/11:20 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Oct. 4, cell towers will begin broadcasting an emergency alert for 30 minutes. If yourphoneis in range of...
Even if you disable AMBER alerts, you'll still receive other emergency alerts on your phone (like the national test the FCC and FEMA conducted on October 4, 2023). To disable these types of alerts, you'll need to turn offGovernment Alerts. On the iPhone, you can find this by going to...
which included removing borders, headers, and tables to conserve screen space and adding a meta tag to force the page to refresh every 15 seconds. Because with SharePoint any user can update this list through a Web browser, it becomes simple for staff to post an alert to the wall-mounted...
The Safeguard Equipment Bluetooth(® )enabled App initiates real-time emergency alert protocol. Any time an alert is triggered, a 60-second countdown timer is initiated, during which the user can cancel the alert in the case of a false alarm. If the alert ...
In the arena of training and exercise, with regard to the subject of artificiality and scope of scenario, tornados in Colorado have provided ample room to test all aspects of response and recovery. With a tornado scenario a jurisdiction can move simultaneously at STARTEX from response into recov...
Here's everything you need to know about the test today. What to know about the emergency alert test At around 2:20 p.m. ET/11:20 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Oct. 4, cell towers will begin broadcasting an emergency alert for 30 minutes. If yourphoneis in range of a c...
When there is no way to dismiss patients who are still coming in, hospitals go into red alert. In this situation, where there are more people coming in than are leaving and there is nowhere for them to go and no spare capacity (beds), hospitals reach the point where staff may genuinely...
and are user friendly and cost effective. However, rapid antigen tests are not highly successful for diagnosis and are mostly used for surveillance purposes only, due to their low specificity and sensitivity. The FDA recently issued an alert about the potential for false positive results that can...