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Committee outlines evacuation exercise, urges residents to sign up for text alerts
Summary
Selena described the evacuation exercise schedule and sign-up process: a day-of text-alert short code (SMC alert) via the town homepage banner, a 9 a.m. start and town-center assembly with a siren demo; she urged residents to use the Watch Duty app for live updates.
Selena described logistics for the planned evacuation exercise and urged residents to register for day-of text alerts via the SMC short code on the town website banner. She said the exercise will include a siren demonstration and a town-center assembly and that the public should use layered alerting, including the Watch Duty app, for live incident information.
"The event will be kicking off at 9AM, and we will have an assembly area here at the town, which will have vendors and some refreshments and, node present or a node demo up," Selena said. She added that the SMC short-code sign-up will confirm registration and that a link explaining the high/low siren sound will be distributed.
Members raised a concern about a previous SMC alert that did not clearly state road closures during the Rastadero fire; Selena said road-closure information at that time would have been handled by the sheriff (Santa Clara County) and that Watch Duty provides more continuous, live updates.
