What is a Spartan Alert?
USC Upstate’s Emergency Notification System (SpartAlert) is a mass notification system that enables students, parents, faculty and staff to receive critical information and updates via text messages to cell phones and email accounts, when unexpected circumstances arise that pose a threat of imminent danger.
What are the 3 types of emergency alerts?
There are three major alert systems: Wireless Emergency Alerts, Emergency Alert System and Opt-In Alert Systems. Each system has different ways of communicating with people, but all of the emergency alert systems provide a way to let people know when there is something wrong.
What is the emergency notification system called?
The Emergency Alert System (EAS)
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national public warning system that allows the president to address the nation within 10 minutes during a national emergency.
What is a blue alert?
The Blue Alert, established by legislation in 2010, is an emergency alert issued by local law enforcement to speed the apprehension of violent criminals who kill or seriously injure law enforcement officers and to aid in the location of missing law enforcement officers.
What is a GREY alert?
A gray alert is created by a cybersecurity detection tool when it comes across a file or an incident with an undisclosed behavior or characteristic. For example, a detection tool may issue a gray alert for a certain application that it detected to register a potentially unwanted behavior.
What is a black alert?
It means the system is under severe pressure and is unable to deliver certain actions and comprehensive emergency care. It also means there is potential for emergency care and safety to be compromised.
What is a pink alert?
Code Pink: infant abduction, pediatric emergency and/or obstetrical emergency.
What is a white alert?
Definition of white alert
: the all-clear signal after an alert also : the period of return to normalcy following an alert — compare blue alert, red alert, yellow alert.
What is a red alert?
Britannica Dictionary definition of RED ALERT. : a warning that there is great danger. [count] — usually singular. The commander issued a red alert.