Hello, my name is Claude Stout and I am with Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TDI) near Washington, DC. Welcome to Its Our World Too! I would like to tell you about the upcoming test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) scheduled for November 9th at 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time, or 11:00am Pacific Standard Time on the West Coast. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and National Weather Service (NWS), will be testing the government's ability to provide emergency news to everyone through television and radio, in case there is a national emergency. The purpose of the test is to see how the EAS system will work in case public safety officials have to send an emergency alert to a large region of the country. This might be in preparation for a major hurricane, tornadoes or any potential disaster affecting a large portion of our population. There is no reason to be concerned about this test and there is nothing you need to do. In 1997, EAS was put into place when it replaced the Emergency Broadcast System. There were three levels of getting the information out. The EAS system was designed to let people know of local and regional severe weather emergencies and other disasters, and to allow the President of the United States to speak to the entire country within ten minutes of a national emergency such as war. The mayor of a town or an elected county official could get the message out about an imminent ...
Tags: tdi, deaf, eas, fema, fcc, asl, emergency, alert, system
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