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Emergency information is broadcast directly through the transmitters to all broadcasters in Redwood City
<br />simultaneously and to special districts and businesses with more than 100 employees, who by law must
<br />monitor this frequency. Emergencies that may warrant an alert include an avalanche, child abduction
<br />emergency, civil danger or emergencies, evacuations, law enforcement or fire warning, radiological or
<br />hazardous materials warnings, flash flooding, and severe weather warnings.
<br />The City is included in the FCC Emergency Alert System Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area California
<br />Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and
<br />Sonoma (revised September 2004). Local EAS voice and video broadcasts are accomplished at the San
<br />Mateo Operational Area EOC.
<br />The monitor assignments are as follows:
<br />Station/Facility Monitors
<br />LP1 KCBS 740 KQED 88.5, KSJO-FM 92.3, NWS 162.400mhz, CLERS 453.875mhz and
<br />Sacramento -Sierra Local Area; 1 of the following: KFBK 1530, KSTE 650, KGBY(FM) 92.5,
<br />KEDR(FM) 88.1, KSTN(FM) 107.3, or KSTN 1420.
<br />LP1S KSOL 98.9 KQED 88.5, KSJO-FM 92.3, NWS 162.400mhz, CLERS 453.875mhz and
<br />Sacramento -Sierra Local Area; 1 of the following: KFBK 1530, KSTE 650, KGBY (FM) 92.5,
<br />KEDR(FM) 88.1, KSTN(FM) 107.3, or KSTN 1420. (KSOL has agreed to translate all EAS
<br />messages into Spanish.)
<br />LP2 KQED 88.5 KCBS 740, KSJO(FM) 92.3, NWS 162.400mhz, CLERS 154.710mhz and
<br />Sacramento -Sierra Local Area; 1 of the following: KFBK 1530, KSTE 650, KGBY (FM) 92.5,
<br />KEDR(FM) 88.1, KSTN(FM) 107.3, or KSTN 1420.
<br />LP2 KSJO (FM) 92.3 KCBS 740, KQED 88.5, NWS 162.400mhz CLERS 154.710mhz and
<br />(recommended) the Monterey Bay Counties LPI, LP2. LP2
<br />KZST(FM) 100.1 KCBS, KQED, NWS, CLERS Sonoma County
<br />All other LP and KCBS 740, KQED 88.5 (required)
<br />Cable TV firms NWS 162.400mhz, CLERS 154.710mhz (recommended)
<br />3.10.3 WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT (WEA)
<br />WEA is a public safety system that allows customers who own certain wireless phones and other enabled
<br />mobile devices to receive geographically -targeted, text -like messages alerting them of imminent threats
<br />to safety in their area. WEA enables government officials to target emergency alerts to specific geographic
<br />areas — lower -Peninsula, for example.
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