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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedEmergency alert system needs overhaul prior to next disaster.(News)
RCR Wireless News, September, 2005
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Key Republican and Democratic senators officially unveiled legislation overhauling the nation's half-century-old emergency warning system by tapping into wireless and other digital technologies to alert citizens in real time to emergency situations. The introduction of the Warning, Alerts, and Response Network Act was announced late Thursday by Sen.
Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on disaster prevention and prediction, and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), ranking member of the panel, even as another monster hurricane-Rita-was closing in on Gulf states. Co-sponsoring the measure are Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Co-Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), and Sens. David...
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