Sentence examples for mass alert from inspiring English sources

In the case of the mass alert on Wednesday, the events started unfolding after the authorities said that Marina Lopez, 25, of Queens, had abducted her son, Mario Danner Jr., on Tuesday afternoon.

Local officials attributed some of the anxiety to what they said were their own faulty communications, including the lack of an emergency system that would have allowed them to issue a mass alert asking people to stay indoors and close their windows so they would not breathe in the outdoor air while the fire was raging during the night.

Bekele Geleta of the IFRC admits the number of disasters in 2012 was also amongst the lowest in several years, but argues that technology played a significant role in reducing the human toll – specifically ownership of phones, linked to weather prediction, satellite imagery and mass alert systems.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's police department accidentally sent out a mass alert warning of an "active shooter" and telling students to escape the "area if safe to do so or shield/secure your location".

In the past, Nortel used one-way pagers to send out mass alerts to technicians, who trekked across a factory floor the size of two football fields to a terminal to see if the problem was theirs to fix.

For institutions like universities and corporate campuses, RapidSOS offers a product it calls GeoAlert that allows public safety officers to send out mass alerts to precisely the people they need to go to, reducing confusion in an emergency.

The U.S. cellphone network isn't built for mass alerts where seconds matter, and a bottleneck makes it difficult to send a message to millions of people at the same time, Given said.

It was a watershed moment in the intersection of law enforcement and technology: the first mass Amber Alert sent to cellphones in the city since a national wireless emergency alert system was established.

Local schools have begun using a mass telephone alert system that automatically notifies parents if a sex attack occurs in town.

Still, this mass shooter alert system doesn't excite Fox, who notes that most active shooter situations are geographically contained and brief enough so that the sound of gunfire is usually the fastest and best alert for anyone in actual danger to seek shelter.

He cited a hypothetical example of how advance publicity of the purchase of equipment to scan container ships for weapons of mass destruction could "alert people who intend to do harm to the city that they should switch to another mode of attack".