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Be alerted to all emergencies in and around Newport

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A short time ago we bought a Public Alert radio. Now that it is up and programmed we thought we would give you a description of what it does.

This radio receives both CIVIL and Weather emergency alerts and is broadcast from NOAA radio towers across the USA. There are more than 900 of these towers. Each tower is programmed to transmit information about your local area and national emergency information.

When NOAA broadcasts a message it displays an Led light “Advisory (yellow)”, “Watch (orange)”, or “Warning (red)”. External handicapped devices can also be hooked to the unit. There is an alert siren that will sound depending on what you want to set it for. You can block many events that do not interest you and that you don’t want to be bothered with such as Avalanche Warnings or weekly tests, etc. The alarm siren can also be hooked up to a public address system.

Working with other federal agencies and the FCC’s Emergency Alert System (EAS) NOAA is the single source for weather and civil emergency information available to the public.

Here are some examples of the more than 80 possible broadcasts that this system will make:

BIOLOGICAL HAZARD WARNING
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
BOIL WATER WARNING
SPECIAL WEATHER ADVISORY
BLIZZARD WARNING
SHELTER IN PLACE
CHILD ABDUCTION EMERGENCY
SEVERE WEATHER
CIVIL EMERGENCY WARNING
TSUNAMI WATCH
COASTAL FLOOD WARNING
VOLCANO WARNING
CHEMICAL HAZARD WARNING
WILD FIRE WARNING
CONTAMINATED WATER
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE WARNING
EMERGENCY ACTION NOTIFICATION
EARTHQUAKE WARNING
EVACUATION
FLASH FLOOD
FIRE WARNING
FREEZE WARNING
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WARNING
HIGH WINDS
LOCAL AREA EMERGENCY
LAW ENFORCEMENT WARNING
LANDSLIDE WARNING

This all cost about $46 for the best unit I could buy at Amazon .com
The name of the product is

FIRST ALERT
Model WX-167
Public Alert Radio

Personally, given the reasonable price of the radio and all that it offers I think this is a must have item for all the residents in our community as well as all of Newport. Trying to set up some kind of calling system to alert everyone depends on people receiving and passing on the message as well as the phones working. This radio will run for 24 hours (on battery) without power and has a critical memory that holds all of the essential information even if it totally loses power.