DIRS Deactivated for Dorian
The FCC deactivated the disaster information reporting system Saturday “at the request of the Department of Homeland Security, National Coordinating Center for Communications, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” said a public notice in Monday's Daily Digest. The final DIRS…
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report for Hurricane Dorian Saturday reflected only affected counties in the Carolinas, and showed no public safety answering points down. Plus 2.1 percent of cell sites in North Carolina were out of service, as were 0.9 percent in South Carolina. Cable and wireline subscriber outages in South Carolina improved to 48,484 subscribers from over 106,000. North Carolina’s out-of-service subscribers increased to 53,000 from 40,999. South Carolina had one TV station and two FM radio stations inoperative.