FCC Public Safety Bureau Meeting With Providers on 2019 Hurricane Season
The FCC Public Safety Bureau is meeting with communications providers to learn about their preparations for this year’s hurricane season, blogged Chief Lisa Fowlkes Monday. The bureau also is conducting “exercises” with government entities to prepare for the storm season,…
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she said. The agency is also examining the impacts of previous storms, Fowlkes said, citing re-examination of the wireless resiliency cooperative framework. The agency is encouraging industry participation in the Disaster Information Reporting Network, the staffer wrote. Fowlkes urged state and local emergency officials to review emergency alerting best practices and plans and she plugged the FCC’s June 28 workshop on multilingual alerting. “We also encourage the use of multilingual alerting to reach non-English-speaking communities,” Fowlkes said. EAS officials don’t expect the commission to require multilingual alerting soon (see 1904240021).