The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the organizations have scheduled a nationwide test of their Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) at approximately 2:20 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
Try not to be alarmed.
The WEA portion of the test will be directed at all consumer cell phones, while the EAS portion will be sent to radios and televisions.
Both of these tests are standard practices and have been run before.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/nationwide-all-device-emergency-alert-set-to-scare-us-all-very-soon/
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