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Do you have a NWR Radio as part of your home disaster plan?

• Do you have a NWR Radio as part of your home disaster plan?

• Battery operated?

• Is it continuously monitoring for an EAS tone?

• Local SAME code?

• Do you periodically “exercise” your NWR during the weekly tests?

“Hardened" and secure national wireline phone network connecting the warning points in each state (usually the state police HQ or state EOC) to the Federal Government

• “Hardened" and secure national wireline phone network connecting the warning points in each state (usually the state police HQ or state EOC) to the Federal Government

• The National Warning System (NAWAS), a major component of the Civil Defense Warning System (CDWS), was established with the primary purpose of providing a capability to warn the nation of a threat of a nuclear attack

• NAWAS can be used for emergencies related to peacetime nuclear accidents, railroad disasters, downed aircraft, and warning of potential natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tsunami's, and tornadoes).

• Center of NAWAS operations is the National Warning Center at NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain command and control complex in Colorado

• Provide notification in case of enemy attack, and to inform and coordinate alert and warning information among states in a given region

Primary State Warning Point located in the state EOC

• Primary State Warning Point located in the state EOC

• Alternate State Warning Point located in the Washington State Patrol (WSP) communications center, Yakima

• Twenty-nine (29) local primary warning points

• NAWAS is a voice only network that allows simultaneous signaling and broadcasting to one or more warning points

Should an incident involving the storage and eventual incineration of chemical munitions at Umatilla Depot Activity pose a life threatening situation for communities within Benton County and surrounding areas, alert notification and information exchange between state and local authorities must occur automatically or within minutes after the event occurs

• Should an incident involving the storage and eventual incineration of chemical munitions at Umatilla Depot Activity pose a life threatening situation for communities within Benton County and surrounding areas, alert notification and information exchange between state and local authorities must occur automatically or within minutes after the event occurs

National and international network of warning points to provide timely exchange of tsunami warning information

• National and international network of warning points to provide timely exchange of tsunami warning information

• Information is relayed to a wide range of government, civil defense, military, and international tsunami research/warning points within each country or area

All Hazard Alert Broadcast system is a single unit or network of warning sirens strategically placed to warn those who are outside or who are in close proximity to a siren

• All Hazard Alert Broadcast system is a single unit or network of warning sirens strategically placed to warn those who are outside or who are in close proximity to a siren

• All Hazard Alert, the siren may be activated for an impending disaster, like a distant tsunami, or it may be activated for a hazardous material incident providing instructions to shelter- in-place

• The sirens are placed on the top of a pole which looks much like any other utility pole

U.S. Geological Survey operates the National Earthquake Information Center, located in Golden, Colorado

• U.S. Geological Survey operates the National Earthquake Information Center, located in Golden, Colorado

• Issues rapid reports for those earthquakes that register at least 4.5 on the Richter Scale in the United States, or 6.5 on the Richter Scale (or are known to have caused damage) anywhere else in the world

• Public warning reports are disseminated in the affected areas via the NWR and EAS systems

Essential numbers to know:

• Essential numbers to know:

• 1-800-258-5990 State EOC, State Emergency Operations Officer (SEOO) (24 hrs), Emergency Line (primarily for use by local/state/federal agencies for reporting/coordinating emergency situations)
• 1-800-854-5406 State EOC, WHEN ACTIVATED for emergency situations
• 1-888-849-2727 State EOC, State Emergency Operations Officer (SEOO) (24 hrs), Search and Rescue Line (primarily for use by local jurisdiction SAR agencies for requesting SAR missions/support)
• [phone] Emergency Management Division (EMD), main business line
• [phone] State EOC Fax line
• [phone] EMD Administrative Fax line

Go the ARRL website (http://www.arrl.org/). Locate the MOU between ARRL and the American National Red Cross. According to the MOU, how is a "disaster" defined?

• Go the ARRL website (http://www.arrl.org/). Locate the MOU between ARRL and the American National Red Cross. According to the MOU, how is a "disaster" defined?