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Thursday, October 23, 2008
"We’re going to err on the side of caution,” Deborah Wilkins, a
university official, told Fox News when asked why the all-clear signal
had not yet been given on the campus by mid-afternoon.
A glance at how W.K.U. communicated with the college community
during the day shows how seriously the university took the often
confusing reports of fighting and gunfire. In all, three different
fights were reported on the campus during the afternoon, said Bob
Skipper, director of media relations for the school about an hour north
of Nashville, Tenn. Administrators used a rolling series of text
messages, e-mail messages and loudspeaker broadcast alerts to warn
students and staff "- Sited from http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/
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"Wireless text is logical basis for an emergency info system. Despite
9/11, the wreckage of Katrina and the messy evacuation of Houston, this
nation still has no way to use the most effective communication system
in history to get information during disasters to the people who need
it...Wireless networks saturate just about every populated area of the
country. The signals reach nearly 200 million cellphones and wireless
e-mail gadgets. Even when the networks become jammed and can't handle
voice calls after use spikes during a catastrophe, the relatively few
bytes of data in text messages usually get through."
sited from:http://www.usatoday.com/
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