[sbe-eas] What’s wrong with L.A.’s emergency system?

[Sean Donelan]

County officials announced Friday they are overhauling their emergency 
alert system after residents across the Los Angeles area continued to 
receive erroneous emergency alerts that urged them to prepare to evacuate, 
even though many were not close to any of the fires sweeping across the 
foothills of the sprawling metropolis.

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On Friday evening, the county announced it would suspend its current alert 
system operated by a third-party vendor called Genasys and switch all 
local emergency alerts to a separate CalOES system as Genasys conducted 
testing to determine what caused the glitch.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/emergency-alert-text-message-los-angeles-fire