Jackson County plans to 'debrief' on emergency alerts after Almeda Fire, but not right away

Jackson County uses Everbridge as its emergency alert vendor, a system that can send targeted alerts to people in specific areas via landline or cell phone.

While the older EAS system is still in place, it was not used.

As a whole.

To 99 but does not include it.

Jackson county is still answering questions about how people were told to evacuate in the early hours of the almeda fire.

The jackson county sheriff says his department had deputies going door to door telling people to get out.

The county also activated it's electronic notification system that uses cell phones and land lines.

The county did not activate the emergency alert system' that is the system that you often see tested on television and hear on the radio, we are trying to find out why the system was not used and why.

43:53 brian says it is the county's position that the eas system was evaluated and rejected on the day of the fire?

And if so who made that decisio?n or was the other system countys response to the fire?

John vile says the platform the county used no is everbridge as far as they do as far as the official decision on n as far as an official position that we are not going to use i cant answer that as sheriff sickler noted we are going to a through debrieff to decide which system is best do you used etc brian says do we know whose decision that is goin to be emergency managment and the board of commisioners out at 44:26 newswatch 12 called city emergency manager shelly anderson belt.

And we asked her if she is responsible for making the decision to not activate the emergency alert system.

She refused to answer the question, referred us to the public information