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US city trials emergency notification system
The Columbus City Government plans to use an emergency notification system to instantly reach all residents when disaster strikes.
The system, currently on trial, has the capacity to call 61,000 households and businesses within minutes. It can be programmed to contact residents within a specific neighbourhood if the emergency affects parts of the city, which is in the US state of Ohio.
The initiative is backed by the success of a similar system which Muscogee County School District (MCSD) has been using since September 2007. The “Connect-ED” system will notify parents and district employees via a telephone call or text message in case of emergencies.
“Getting the facts out quickly ensures that the parents do not panic,” said Valerie Fuller, Director of Communications of MCSD, which has 33,000 students and 6,200 employees across 64 schools.
Mass notification systems are not as well-embraced in Asia Pacific. “We currently do not have any advanced system to broadcast emergency messages to the community. Other than standard public address systems integrated with fire alarm systems in certain buildings, it is still probably manual announcements,” Lim Choon Kwang, Deputy Director, Office of Campus Security, National University of Singapore, told Asian Security Review.
The university is currently exploring technologies to better prepare itself for emergencies.
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