Emergency Preparedness News & Events Update:  Take the 2010 Emergency Communications Survey and Enter Drawing – Deadline December 31: The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies has an online survey to learn how people with disabilities contact emergency services, and how they get and verify alerts during a public emergency.  People who complete the survey will be automatically entered in a drawing for a $250 gift card. Deadline is tomorrow, December 31, 2010. The drawing will be held on January 3.

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