Suffolk County greets hurricane season with updated alerting system

Last September, as the East Coast prepared for Tropical Storm Hermine, the emergency broadcasting system accidentally sent out an evacuation alert for all of Long Island’s Suffolk County. The alert was meant just for Fire Island, but that part was truncated.

That won’t happen again, said Joel Vetter, the county’s deputy chief EMS Officer.

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