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New
CodeRED
alerts of
dangers
By Jamks H Cannon
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Suppose that Hush floods developing in, Rappahannock County threaten to swamp your homo in the hollow. Or imagine that a chemical truck crashed on Route iilt. threatening your area with a toxic cloud-or that a danSerous prisoner escaped the county jail and is on the loose.
How would you find out about these emergencies immediately and take precautions?
Up until now, officials in Rappahannock County have had no way to quickly inform all residents of such impending dangers. But now they do~in the form of a high-tech emergency communications network called CodeRED. capable of calling every telephone in the county with an emergency message, all within live minutes.
The new system, which was activated last week, has the capability to blanket the entire county with a recorded emergency message. or to target just the telephones in a specified geographic area, such as all homes in the SperryvUle area, or all telephones within a three-mile radius of the county jail or a major accident or fire.
“It is really a good system, and we can use it in a lot of ways.* said Itlctlk HuHte. the county's Emergency Management and Services Coordinator, who briefed the Board of Supervisors on the CodeRED system Monday and later demonstrated how it works for a reporter. Burke said that he will be making test culls on the
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