LAPAC calls for better emergency notification: NOAA transmitter, neighborhood assistance lists and multiple communication methods
Members recommended installing a NOAA weather radio transmitter for South County, hardening communications infrastructure, maintaining lists of residents needing evacuation assistance (with privacy safeguards), and expanding multi-channel notifications and neighborhood-based support during evacuations.
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A staff member and committee members urged the county to address gaps in emergency notification and evacuation assistance, noting South County lacks a NOAA weather radio transmitter. "There's no transmitter in the South County," a staff member said, describing coverage gaps around Mount Saint Helena and Middletown that limit radio emergency broadcasts.
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