California Wildfires Shouldn't Come Without Warning
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- California has seen the most destructive forest fires in decades, with 16 different fires bearing down on 8 counties. The tally is more than 1,500 homes and a total of 41 lost lives so far, illustrating the demand for American Signal Corporation's CompuLert(TM) NEXGen system as it pertains to detecting threats, issuing alerts and saving lives.
Reported details show wireless emergency alerts were not sent by a number of affected counties--including Santa Rosa, Yuba, Sonoma and Napa. Of the messages that were sent, many failed to reach their intended recipients due to low sign-up rate or even cell tower damage. Without any other dissemination channels, emergency managers had no way of alerting area residents of the developing situations around them. This situation shows the need for an adaptive solution.
NEXGen allows controllers to disseminate emergency alerts across a full scope of mediums, distributing them via siren signals, message board displays, email notification, giant voice systems, light alerts, mobile sirens and more.
NEXGen also offers the life-saving integration that emergency managers need to stay abreast of developing situations. HUB integration of wind and fire sensors enables the system to relay reports in real time, to track developing threats and increase critical response time. NEXGen's intuitive capabilities even allow sensor readings to trigger alerts automatically to combat fast-moving threats.
"It's of critical importance that an emergency alert system has a diverse range of dissemination options, as both a failsafe feature and to blanket as many people as possible in as short a time as possible," said Richard Roe, Executive Vice President at ASC. "It's time to recognize the life-saving opportunities of a system like CompuLert(TM) NEXGen, to help promote detection, awareness and responsiveness when wildfire threat levels next rise."
For more information about ASC or its threat detection and emergency notification systems, please visit https://www.americansignal.com/.
American Signal Corporation (ASC) is a leading designer and manufacturer of mass notification solutions for a wide variety of applications worldwide. The company combines advanced engineering, innovative software and state-of-the-art equipment with an extraordinary record of longevity and expertise in the field, to develop and install compliant, versatile and effective notification systems. We aim to save lives every day.
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