AMBER ALERT Definition & Meaning

Amber Alert

or AM·BER A·lert

[ am-ber uh-lert ]

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noun

1. a public alert system that uses broadcast media, text messages, and electronic billboards to spread information about missing persons, especially children.
2. a public message or announcement that uses this system.

Amber alert

noun

a notification to the general public, such as by commercial radio or electronic traffic-condition signs, regarding an abduction of a child

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Amber Alert¹

Backronym from America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response; named after Amber Hagerman, a girl kidnapped and murdered in Texas in 1996

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Amber Alert¹

C20: named after Amber Hagerman , a child who was abducted and murdered in 1996 in Arlington, Texas

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Networks should be blasting a version of an Amber Alert for Disappeared People, grabbed off the street and university campuses by masked agents, who shunt them off to another state or a brutal prison in El Salvador.

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The Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service has issued their second amber alert of the year for fires, urging people not to use disposable barbecues or set campfires and to make sure cigarettes have been extinguished.

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Lett questioned why they weren’t alerted the same way an Amber alert goes out when a child has been abducted.

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NHS Blood and Transplant says England remains on "amber alert" for low blood stocks.

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An amber alert for heavy snow and ice will also be in force between 07:00 GMT and 17:00 GMT on Saturday in an area north of Scotland's central belt, where as much as 20-40cm of snow is likely on higher ground.

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