Speaker: Bryan L. Hoskins, PE, PhD
Join us on March 11th at 11:00 AM EST for this upcoming webinar with Bryan Hoskins.
In the wildland fires in Maui in 2023, the people on the island were not alerted using a siren or similar type of alert. People in the public and media questioned why the tsunami alert system was not used because people would have known about the emergency sooner. Government officials stated that they did not sound the tsunami warning because it would have led people to an improper response- for tsunamis, people are supposed to head away from the shore and towards high ground, but the wildland fires were away from the shore and people needed to head towards the shore.
While it is best practice to have a unique alarm for each type of emergency, a variety of factors (probability of the event, number of signals people already need to know, feasibility of design, etc.) can lead to not having a system that is solely dedicated to that type of emergency.
This raises the question about whether it is better to sound an alarm for a different emergency or to rely on other means of alerting people about the event. This presentation will examine the pros and cons of each option as well as present collected data.
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