Alaska tests Emergency Action Notification

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Radio listeners and TV viewers in Alaska witnessed the first national emergency exercise of its kind Wednesday morning, but the test ran into distribution problems around the state.

Radio, television and some cable providers participated in a live statewide test of the nation's Emergency Alert System, which employed a never-used code that would be applied in a national crisis.

Posted by Roy_Batty at 05:08 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

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Just put Sarah on top of Mt. McKinley with a megaphone (actually the megaphone would be optional). I'm sure the message would be heard statewide.

Posted by USN at 2010-01-06 09:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

"The Russsians are coming! The Russians are coming!"

Posted by LetUsPrey at 2010-01-07 01:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

**THIS IS ONLY A TEST**

"This is a test of the Emergency Blogcast System. The blogcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and federal, state and local authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency."

If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the blogcast stations in your area.

We now return to our usual blog programming.

Thank you fer yer co-operation.

Be Well.

Posted by dethspud at 2010-01-07 05:09 AM | Reply | Flag: