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Sheridan County Ratifies IPAWS-OPEN Agreement

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The Sheridan County Commission has ratified and agreement with FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, concerning the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, Open Platform for Emergency Networks, or IPAWS-OPEN.

According to fema.gov, IPAWS-OPEN receives and authenticates messages from federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management officials and routes them to IPAWS-compliant public alerting systems.

The platform uses the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an international standard used by IPAWS to send public alerts and warnings. Existing state or locally owned and operated warning systems such as sirens, highway signs or emergency telephone notification systems, can be designed to receive alerts from IPAWS-OPEN.

IPAWS-OPEN is compatible with National Weather Service (NWS) message dissemination systems, including NOAA Weather Radio. IPAWS-OPEN may be used to route messages to the NWS gateway, which results in an increased number of channels that can be used to warn the public.

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