KXLY
July 27, 2021 6:35 PM
SPOKANE, Wash. — Already this summer, so many of you have been notified about evacuations and alerts. When it comes to an emergency situation like an evacuation for a fire, it’s important that emergency alerts do what they’re supposed to, but on Tuesday morning, there was confusion across Spokane County as phones lit up with emergency alerts, asking people to shelter-in-place.
It’s Spokane County’s Emergency Management Department that pushes out wireless emergency alerts for anyone who has a cellphone.
“We have been able to locate missing people within ten minutes. They could be missing for hours but when we sent out a wireless emergency alert, we found them within ten minutes,” said Simone Ramel-McKay, program specialist with Spokane County Emergency Management.