An official with the Village of Baddeck is calling out the Nova Scotia RCMP and the Municipality of Victoria County for not using the municipal alert system sooner in the search for a missing senior that was suspended on Sunday. Jennifer MacDonald, chair of the village commission, said the public should have been notified right away when 80-year-old Baddeck resident Richard Mahoney was reported missing on Thursday. "We are a small community and there probably are things that we could have done," she told CBC News on Tuesday, after raising conce ...
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The US Department of Homeland Security is warning of vulnerabilities in the nation’s emergency broadcast network that makes it possible for hackers to issue bogus warnings over radio and TV stations. “We recently became aware of certain vulnerabilities in EAS encoder/decoder devices that, if not updated to the most recent software versions, could allow an actor to issue EAS alerts over the host infrastructure (TV, radio, cable network),” the DHS's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned. “This exploit was successfully demonstr ...
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Medical alert systems can provide lifesaving assistance in an emergency event, connecting users to a dispatcher who can send for assistance. They can provide reassurance to people who are medically vulnerable and living alone, as well as their loved ones. Still, a Forbes Health survey of over 1,000 U.S adults ages 65 and older who are electing to age in place found that while 34% of respondents worry about falling or needing medical attention, only 9% of participants use a medical alert system. ...
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By Jennifer McKiernan ; The government's emergency alert should be tested every two years, a senior official has suggested. ; But MPs heard how five million users on the Three network did not receive the test alert. ; Roger Hargreaves, director of Cobra, the government's emergencies committee, said technical issues had been fixed so the system was ready for use.