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The Truth About False Alarms & Emergency Warnings | Alerting Authority Podcast
What happens when people stop trusting emergency alerts? Do “false alarms” actually make communities less safe—or is the problem more complicated than we think?
In this episode of The Alerting Authority, hosts Jeannette Sutton and Eddie Bertola sit down with disaster researcher Dr. Joe Trainor (University of Delaware) to break down the science behind false alarms, trust, and human behavior in emergencies.
Drawing on decades of research—from Hurricane Katrina to global disaster response—Dr. Trainor explains how people really interpret alerts, why the “cry wolf” theory is often misunderstood…
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