The problem isn’t that there is no way to alert residents. It’s that officials too often don’t use it.
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Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.
ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited unti...