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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
Through its CodeRed alert program, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies offer timely notifications of safety concerns, including criminal activity, missing person ...
The Emergency Alert System ( EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and AM, FM and satellite radio. Informally, Emergency Alert System is sometimes conflated with its mobile phone ...
In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...
But instead of notifying Apex High families that the campus was on Code Red, the district sent an alert instead to Apex Friendship High School families that their school was locked down.
A Code Red alert was sent to everyone within a 5-mile radius of Matthew’s home, reaching about 69,000 people Monday night, Winegar said. That alert radius was expanded Tuesday to 8 miles.
In the United States, the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) was a color-coded terrorism threat advisory scale created in March 2002 under the Bush administration in response to the September 11 attacks. The different levels triggered specific actions by federal agencies and state and local governments, and they affected the level of ...
Joe Crain went off-script during a June 5 broadcast and expressed his disapproval of the on-air alerts.