ROCHESTER, N.Y. – After the flash flooding in Central Texas that left over 130 people dead, Texas officials are facing questions about whether people had adequate warning.
If severe weather like that were to hit Monroe County, how would people hear about it? That’s what a viewer, Bob, asked News10NBC: “Do the towns and city in Monroe County have warning sirens for emergencies? We’re informed about tests at Ginna, but I never hear of tests locally.”
Monroe County says it does not have warning sirens for weather emergencies but it does have several other ways of letting you know about a public emergency.
Webster, Penfield, and Perinton have more than 40 sirens that are owned and operated by the Ginna Nuclear Power Plant. Those sirens are specifically for nuclear emergencies. As far as weather emergencies, the county says it’s “the sole responsibility of the National Weather Service” to alert people.
Those weather alerts would come through the Emergency Alerting System on radios and TVs or on your cell phone through the “Wireless Emergency Alerting” system. If Monroe County needed to alert the public of a natural disaster or other emergency, it could use the “Integrated Public Alert Warning System,” which uses radio, TV, cell phone and weather radios and possibly even digital signs along the highway.
The county says the 911 Communications Center can also use reverse 911 calls to alert people about more targeted emergencies, like if police are asking people to shelter in place.
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