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Boise, Idaho -- A company based in Idaho has helped develop a new emergency alert system -- targeted especially for major disasters.
Mystateusa.com has created a large-scale, high-tech warning system to alert people electronically in a catastrophe.
Where in the past if a hurricane was coming, residents would be warned through the TV and radio. Now, they will receive messages on their blackberry, cell phone, e-mail and home phone.
Mystateusa has streamlined this technology to make it more user friendly.
"We can actually trigger the sirens. We can trigger the emergency alert systems, so it's kind of like an interface that puts everything into one place and then puts it out to everything," said Claudia Bitner, the president of Mystateusa.
Twelve states, including Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, will be using this technology through their state government.
Locally, Elmore County and the State of Washington are already using the base alert system.
