Interim Tsunami Plan
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Part of the local Homeland Security Department’s (ASDHS) Interim Tsunami Plan centers on communication through the FirstNet Program, which is the “primary method of communication, to all first and secondary responders,” according to a summary copy of the Plan presented...

![Homeland Security director Samana Semo Ve’ave’a holds up an iPhone, telling a Senate committee hearing yesterday that this device is used to receive not only text messages during times of disasters but also uninterrupted connection to the FirstNet program. [photo: FS] Homeland Security director Samana Semo Ve’ave’a holds up an iPhone](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/asdhs_n_firstnet.jpg?itok=tzLn4ZrX)