San Francisco is working on bringing back its outdoor emergency alert system. The city's emergency dept. says this weekend's tsunami advisory wouldn't have triggered the outdoor sirens.
and other disasters were taken offline two years ago for repair. The sirens will be silent for at least two more years.
"Yeah the police officer told me," said Edward Downing. "He says 'We're closing the area.' So I go, 'What's going on?' He says 'Oh there's a tsunami warning.""Right now the sirens are offline and they are offline due to the fact that there were some significant security issues related to the technology," said Mary Ellen Carroll, Director of San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management.
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