Statewide Emergency Alert System Proposed To Help During Wildfires

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – California is working on a new statewide emergency alert system to warn people in an emergency, including wildfires.
Right now California’s 58 counties have various systems in place, including broadcasting alerts on television and radio and sending recorded messages to landlines. Several counties send text messages to mobile phone users; however, the users need to opt-in for the service.
The new proposal would make the emergency alert system uniform across all co