Following Monday morning's tornado, authorities discovered many people in the area who do not have good cell phone coverage did not receive the warning messages.
"At 3 o clock in the morning, people are asleep and most of them don't even have cell signal at their house. They couldn't get notified," said Councilman Joe Dill.
He reported one woman had to walk around after the storm to get cell service to call and report the damage.
Dill began looking into the problem and found that there is an alarm located at the Slater-Marietta Main Fire Station, but there is an issue.
"The problem is that it's not controlled by the Weather Bureau; it's controlled by a switch and someone has to flip the switch to turn it on," Dill said.
Dill is working with emergency preparedness groups, the state, and county organizations in Greenville and Pickens.
"What we want to do is get everything working just like it does on the coast and other places so we have notification that a storm is coming. We're moving fast and hopefully we'll have this thing up and operating in a few days," Dill said.
He intends to have an expert check the system and ensure its alarm will alert more than the Slater-Marietta community.
"If this one's not going to be big enough, then we need to put another one over there next to the (Pickens) county line," Dill said.
These measures aim to ensure lack of cell service will not be a problem in emergency alarms in the future.
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