SOUTHEAST OHIO EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

IX. NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES
A. Notifiers: The Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director and the County Sheriff
of each of the five (5) counties in the Southeast Ohio Operational Area are designated officials
authorized to request activation of the EAS and are known as notifiers. Other local officials
must request EAS activation through the authorized notifiers.
B. EAS activation is accomplished through notifier-owned EAS encoder equipment at
Sheriff Offices or county Emergency Operations Centers. Each notifier has been given contact
telephone numbers for accessing the automated EAS equipment at the LP-1 and LP-2 station.
Station staff assistance numbers have also been provided. Notifiers are listed in Attachment IV
of this plan.
C. Requests for activation of the Southeast Ohio Operational Area EAS will be made by
contacting WOUB, the Local Primary station control room. If WOUB cannot be contacted,
WXTQ, the alternate LP, shall be contacted. EAS telephone numbers have been provided to all
notifiers. Emergency communications from designated notifiers will be handled immediately.
Notifiers should have all information to be broadcast loaded in their EAS encoder and ready to
send prior to connecting to station EAS equipment. EAS messages should contain the type of
emergency, area affected and action that should be taken. Messages must be less than 2-minutes
in length.
D. All Southeast Ohio Operational Area EAS messages will be formatted to begin and end
with the following statement:
“WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM TO ACTIVATE THE EMERGENCY ALERT
SYSTEM” (text of emergency announcement) “THIS CONCLUDES THIS EMERGENCY
ALERT SYSTEM MESSAGE.”
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