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Ascend, International Paper To Help Purchase Escambia County Mass Notification System
October 15, 2014
Escambia County Emergency Management, the Escambia County Health Department, ECUA, International Paper and Ascend Performance Materials are teaming up to purchase an emergency notification system.
Escambia County’s EMA has found it necessary to replace its current mass notification system that allows it to communicate with the public and other agencies and entities during emergencies.
The agencies and companies will purchase of a new internet-based mass notification system subscription at a total cost of $67,375 for a July 1 to June 30 period. Each party will contribute equally toward the annual subscription price.
The first subscription year will be prorated for eight months from November 1 to June 30, with each party contributing $8,983.20. Next year’s annual subscription will cost each party $13,475.
Escambia County will utilize federal grant funds to pay for its share of the total subscription cost. The county commission is expected to approve the plan at their Thursday meeting.
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4 Responses to “Ascend, International Paper To Help Purchase Escambia County Mass Notification System”
>>>If you have no power or cell service during and immediately after a hurricane for example, how is any type of internet going to work?
The internet based service would still work, wherever it is physically located away from here, and the company would still be able to make the call outs to whatever cell or landline phones still work.
Our NorthEscambia office, for instance, could be washed away and have no internet service, but NorthEscambia.com would continue to function. Same with this company, and they’d still be able to make their automated photo calls.
If you have no power or cell service during and immediately after a hurricane for example, how is any type of internet going to work? I can see it working otherwise. The only communication we had out here was my weather radio, and the local stations weren’t working at the time.
I note that the federal government is picking up the county’s part of the tab. Not all government spending is bad.
Can someone explain in more detail how this is going to work?
Shouldn’t Gulf Power be added? Could a alert system with “traffic Alert” be added?
It would be nice to know how to be added to a texting system.
We have never received any alerts or test alerts.