From Oregon Live: Later today, Oregon state and county governments will hold debriefings, looking at what worked during Friday’s tsunami response and what needs to change to make Oregon better prepared if disaster strikes.

It appears that -- directly at least -- no lives were lost when the tsunami hit the Oregon coast on Friday, and there was relatively little damage. But the event put Oregon's rarely used tsunami emergency response to the test.

A hardware glitch kept Curry County from using its reverse 911 system to notify residents, and one woman who was not personally notified had to be rescued from surging currents south of Gold Beach. Two sirens in Tillamook County didn't activate and had to be sounded by hand but the county did notify residents by e-mail, text and Twitter messages.

Sheriff John Bishop said Curry County's emergency manager scrambled to reach the state's emergency command center in Salem. Read the entire article here.