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

[Aaron Read]

Is there any indication that Genasys has a problematic reputation or
anything like that?  I'm assuming they don't, otherwise it probably
would've been mentioned in the article...

- Aaron

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

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