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6. Those with functional needs and/or persons in group homes may require special warning <br />and notification. <br />B. Assumptions <br />1. County Government may require additional forms of warning to augment the current <br />systems in order to provide sufficient warning to the general public and those with <br />functional needs. <br />2. Use of mobile public address systems and/or house -to -house warnings maybe necessary <br />when the urgency of the particular hazard requires immediate evacuation actions or when <br />there is a failure of other fixed warning systems. <br />III. CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS <br />A. Emergency warning may originate at the national, state, or local levels of government. <br />B. The County may receive warnings from the following sources: <br />1. National Warning System (NAWAS) <br />2. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration / National Weather Service (NWS) <br />Weather Radio Service <br />3. Emergency Alerting System (EAS) <br />4. State Operated Radio Systems <br />5. North Carolina Division of Criminal Information (DCI) <br />6. Duke Power Decision Line and Selective Signaling Line <br />7. Local Government Radios <br />8. Sirens, horns, or mobile public address systems <br />9. Telephone <br />10. Personal contact <br />C. The following methods are used for receipt and dissemination of warning: <br />1. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol (SHP) serves as the State Warning Point <br />(SWP) at the Raleigh Communications Center. <br />2. The North Carolina Division of Emergency Management (NCDEM) operates an EOC on <br />a 24 -hour basis. <br />Cabarrus County EOP — Annex C — Notification and Warning 2 <br />Attachment number 4 <br />F -6 Page 228 <br />