Program your weather radios this weekend
By The Herald Staff
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Franklin County Emergency Management, along with Bruce Jones, meteorologist and Midland Radio representative, will be on-hand to program all-hazard weather radios and answer questions from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Country Mart, 2138 S. Princeton Circle Drive.
During a weather, other natural or man-made emergency, the National Weather Service will interrupt routine weather programming and broadcast a special tone that activates weather radios, by county, in the covered areas, a news release from Franklin County Emergency Management said.
The radios are equipped with a special alarm tone that will sound an alert and give immediate information about a life-threatening or community-specific child-abduction AMBER alert situation, the release said. The emergency tone is automatic and will be sounded on the radio at any time an emergency may be likely or is imminent.
Radios will be available for purchase Saturday at Country Mart, which will also have complimentary hot dogs and drinks available.
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