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

[Ben Overbaugh]

I find it hard to imagine what erroneous setting could have been selected
that would send the alert at 4pm, and then send it again automatically in
the 3am hour, 11-some hours later.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 5:03 AM Rob Dale <rdale at skywatch.org> wrote:

> No, this has all the indications of an issue after it left the vendor.
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2025, at 12:33 AM, Aaron Read <readaaron at friedbagels.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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