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

[Rob Dale]

Good - because none exists 🙂

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

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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