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Building a Better Flood Evacuation Communications Plan
Floods

Building a Better Flood Evacuation Communications Plan

Essential Communications Tools Enhance Your Team’s Evacuation Planning and Public Safety  Key Takeaways:  Pre-planned and pre-scripted evacuation communications, along with simulation and modeling capabilities takes your response time from hours...
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Evacuation Management Best Practices—Reduce Response Time from Hours to Minutes
Floods

Evacuation Management Best Practices—Reduce Response Time from Hours to Minutes

Emergency response teams are faced with a multitude of high impact events that require fast action and possible evacuation. During our recent webinar, we spoke with industry veterans about how...
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Zonehaven Evacuation Platform Launched in Humbolt County California
Wildfires

Zonehaven Evacuation Platform Launched in Humbolt County California

EUREKA, Calif. — The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office launched a new evacuation mapping tool on Wednesday, creating over 300 emergency zones in the county. Officials with the HCSO Office of Emergency...
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Emergency Sirens Get High-tech Makeover in Disaster-Prone California
Wildfires

Emergency Sirens Get High-tech Makeover in Disaster-Prone California

Many of the existing sirens in California, and throughout the United States, provide generic alerts, incapable of broadcasting intelligible voice instructions and critical notifications during emergencies or disasters.
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The Role of Critical Communications in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Pandemic

The Role of Critical Communications in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

The Genasys Public Safety Platform unifies mass notification channels; Location-Based SMS, Cell Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, CAP Compliant for Sirens, TV, Radio and much more.
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IPAWS – WEA, NWS and NOAA Weather Radio in a Single Platform
IPAWS

IPAWS – WEA, NWS and NOAA Weather Radio in a Single Platform

The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) is an architecture that unifies the United States' Emergency Alert System, National Warning System, Wireless Emergency Alerts, and NOAA Weather Radio, under...
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Leveraging the Nationwide Power of IPAWS with Genasys
IPAWS

Leveraging the Nationwide Power of IPAWS with Genasys

The authority that approves your application to issue messages on IPAWS is FEMA: it regulates the types of messages you could broadcast and the FIPS codes you are allowed to...
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IPAWS, WEA, FEMA & the Genasys Solution
IPAWS

IPAWS, WEA, FEMA & the Genasys Solution

The ability to issue geographically defined alerts without having the public to opt in has long been the strongest point of the system.
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Governer Newsom Gives Little Assurance that CA Cities are Prepared for Wildfire Evacuations
Wildfires

Governer Newsom Gives Little Assurance that CA Cities are Prepared for Wildfire Evacuations

Many towns and cities have outdated sirens that may or may not work properly. Even when working these systems do not provide specific warnings, notifications and instructions.
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