Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.
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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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ipaws-emergency-alerts-local-official-failures?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post