Dec 15, 2020
Members of the Gainesville City Council are to hear about the city s modernized emergency alert system this evening.
At 6:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, Dec. 15, the city council is scheduled to meet in the council chambers inside the Municipal Building, 200 S. Rusk St., to hear a report from city of Gainesville Emergency Management spokeswoman Tamara Grimes-Sieger on the city s new Integrated Public Alert and Warning System.
IPAWS sends messages to cellphones within the area of an emergency using the same network that is used for Amber Alerts. The alerts will also interrupt broadcasts on radio stations, TV channels and weather radios, according to an archived Register report.