http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2009/05/11/lesson-learned-e-mailtext-alert-just-sent-out-to-warn-new-yorkers-military-plane-will-fly-down-and-back-up-hudson-river-today/ A Citizen’s Eye View of Public Preparedness Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:57:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2009/05/11/lesson-learned-e-mailtext-alert-just-sent-out-to-warn-new-yorkers-military-plane-will-fly-down-and-back-up-hudson-river-today/comment-page-1/#comment-34182 NotifyNYC, New York’s Emergency Text/E-Mail/Phone Alert Service, Goes Citywide Today Thu, 28 May 2009 23:31:04 +0000 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/?p=1347#comment-34182 [...] Edward Skyler, the Deputy Mayor who oversees NotifyNYC, kicked off the program’s citywide launch at the Office of Emergency Management’s(OEM) headquarters in downtown Brooklyn this afternoon. In an interview, Skyler pointed to last month’s incident when a 747 aircraft and two fighter jets flew over lower Manhattan scaring many area residents as an example of the value of these alerts. In that instance, the U.S. Department of Defense did not tell City officials who therefore were not able to send out a warning through NotifyNYC until afterwards. However, a couple weeks later during another scheduled flyover NotifyNYC did have the info beforehand and did send out an alert. [...] [...] Edward Skyler, the Deputy Mayor who oversees NotifyNYC, kicked off the program’s citywide launch at the Office of Emergency Management’s(OEM) headquarters in downtown Brooklyn this afternoon. In an interview, Skyler pointed to last month’s incident when a 747 aircraft and two fighter jets flew over lower Manhattan scaring many area residents as an example of the value of these alerts. In that instance, the U.S. Department of Defense did not tell City officials who therefore were not able to send out a warning through NotifyNYC until afterwards. However, a couple weeks later during another scheduled flyover NotifyNYC did have the info beforehand and did send out an alert. [...]

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