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Hubbardston group weighs mass-alerting, prewritten messages and social‑media outreach
Summary
Town emergency planners reviewed mass‑alert options including WEA (Wireless Emergency Alerts), reverse‑911 and social media, agreed to draft prewritten messages and explore regional opt‑in systems to speed notices during outages and severe weather.
S1 told the committee that the town can issue mass alerts through WEA but that a selectboard member or the town official must provide the message to WEA for transmission. "We have to contact WEA with the message," S1 said, "and then they will send it out." The group discussed the benefits and limits of WEA (which can override phones for major declarations), map‑based…
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