Twitter and other social media is being used for mass notification of residents during the current wildfire incidents in the Los Angeles National Forest. There are several important components in this message:
1) Name of incident: Station Fire

2) Call to action: call 211

3) Request for help: Please RT! (retweet) and media please promote

4) Hashtag to add this to Twitter search stream: #Station

Follow @AngeleseNF for more Twitter updates about the developing wild fire related evacuations.

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Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-P is an author, podcaster, blogger, and advocate for emergency response agencies to use social media before, during, and after any incident. Greg is the Director of Education for CentreLearn Solutions, LLC. He is also the co-host of the EMSEduCast podcast and is a paramedic for a 911 agency in northeast Wisconsin

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