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Article #1669Re: Sirens: Whose responsibility?
From: Joe Dellinger
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
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On CNN they said that the NWS issued a tornado warning for Ft. Smith
_before_ the tornado hit, but that high winds had downed the telephone lines
so the NWS was unable to call the local civil defense on the telephone. (!)
As a result the civil defense did not get the call, and didn't sound the
sirens (until after the tornado had already hit). It was a serious enough
screw-up that there is some sort of investigation as to what they should have
done differently.
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