On (21 Feb 97) Blake Bowers wrote to Bill Newman...
 BN> The change in the name is really not doing anything more than it
 BN> did before. The change from the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS)
 BN> to the Emergency Alerting System (EAS) is in extent just that a
 BB> Beg pardon?
 BB> The EAS will be able to specifically address individual stations,
 BB> regions, counties, etc, via digital packets, and routing!
 BB> Furthermore, if one station in a chain is down, under the old EBS it
 BB> could cripple a entire region.  Not so with EAS!
 BB> It will work with fully automated stations also!
 BB> difference is the same as night and day!
 BB> Let's try to get the facts before posting, ok?
What I am telling you are the facts that have been given us by
our emergency management office. Seeing that I am the department
head of our towns emergency management (Civil Defense) system I
am updated by the county quarterly. When I was working as
disaster cord. for Salvation Army in Rochester region I was
updated by the state. The emergency notification on the town
level is very important to myself and my staff and the
information that we have been getting is what we thought was
right. I guess the county needs to be better educated.
Actually I am now very much confused. I passed a couple of your
notes past our disaster communications officer for the three
county area and he had not heard anything that you had mentioned.
He is also going to dig further now as well as myself.
Sorry, I am just using the information that is available to me.
Bill
... Bill Newman  --  Rochester, NY  --  wtnewman@juno.com
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