That's fucking dangerous and infuriating. Come to think of it, when I was in Fort Collins and a fire was over the mountain to the west of us, we heard "be ready to evacuate" by word-of-mouth too, never from any other source. Do weather radios report such things? That's not really NOAA's department, but it would reach more people if it broadcast like a tornado watch at least.
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They literally told us to tune into "local news" and WE DO NOT HAVE LOCAL NEWS! We have a weekly paper... that is a little slow to learn about an evacuation. The TV and radio news stations are based out of Boise, 150 miles from here. They report on Boise stuff, not the hick towns.
Yeah, that's generally true of everywhere. Here, Denver news is Colorado news, period; in New Jersey it was NYC news. There isn't going to be a TV station everywhere. We did have a radio station on campus in Fort Collins, probably most college towns have a student radio station, but outside of that ...yeah.
They call them things like FOREST fires and WILDLAND fires... but they expect a local news station to inform the public. They have failed to notice this is the boondocks?