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News Details (Posted: December 29, 2006):
NEW PHONE SYSTEM COMES CALLING IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
Full Description:
To an outsider, it might have looked like a meeting about to spin out of control: Several Pierce County emergency officials' cell phones rang simultaneously in a conference room in Tacoma last week. The call originated in Denver, and it played a recorded message informing each member of the group that this was a test of a new emergency alert system.
The system had been activated 37 seconds earlier, when one of the officials clicked a button on a computer.
"This is as close to the magic bullet as it can get," said Steve Bailey, director of Pierce County Emergency Management.
