tvguy
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- Dec 15, 2003
Even having stupid pagers , before cell phones . The phones were hard to find.
Fire and police departments still use pagers. It is backup, but still in use. As are landline call boxes scattered around town. Computers, 2 way radios and cell phones are the primary ways to communicate, but as we learned last week with the fires. for a lot of things cell phones were totally useless in an emergency. Towers down, batteries dead, etc. So much so that here in Sacramento they are doing a drill Thursday and working to educate those without a landline that they need to register their cell phone, Voip or email address with the County if they want to get emergency alerts (I.E. Reverse 911). Emergency officials have everyone's landline number, but unless you register a cell phone, VoIP or email address, they have no way of getting that information.
http://www.sacramentoready.org/Pages/Emergency-Alerts-Notification-System.aspx