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Emergency Test Fails in Portland

City officials say yesterday's test of Portland’s Community Emergency Notification System failed. The plan was for as many Portland residents as possible to receive a test message, via landline phone, cell phone, and text, in the shortest amount of time. The Bureau of Emergency Management says less than one-percent of the residents who were supposed to receive the message actually did. PBEM Director Carmen Merlo says the software vendor; Louisiana-based First Call, is being called upon to immediately solve the problem.

 

 

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