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Has anyone heard of or had experience with this:

http://www.emergencyemail.org

It is an organization that arranges for notices of emergencies be sent out via e-mail to subscribers. Any public service organization seems to be able to sign up to send out e-mails to all substcribers when there is an emergency notification to be made in a certain area. I'm not clear on the details of how that works, but it is free to sign up for the average citizen.

I signed up last month to see what would happen. I now get occasional e-mails sent to my cell phone as a text mesage (which I can recieve for free). So far the only messages I have gotten are weather advisories from NOAA. Like 3-4 weeks ago when several late winter storms were heading in, my phone notified me 12-24 hours before that a winter strorm advisory was in effect in my county for the next XX hours. Seems to me that this service could be used by Law, Fire, and EMS to notify your counties residents that: a storm is comming, a wildfire is raging, flash flood warnings, evacuations are mandatory/recommended - evacuate to here, and amber alerts, although the applications are many and could be helpful if immediately sent out to peoples cell phones.

Check it out.
 
The thing I'm wondering is


Where the heck was the national alert system on 9/11? We have those darn test every so often, and the one day that is a perfect candidate for it, NOTHING!
 
I think I will take this site to my superiors in the Sheriff's Office and see if they see any application. We are a Wildfire, Winter Storm, Flash Flood, Earthquake prone area and I could see this system be advertised county wide and used to notify our people about possible natural disasters / emeregencies as well as Amber Alerts.
 
Linuss said:
The thing I'm wondering is


Where the heck was the national alert system on 9/11? We have those darn test every so often, and the one day that is a perfect candidate for it, NOTHING!
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i never thought of that. where the heck was the alert system?
 
I use this service, I get wx text to my phone, mostly winter time w/winter storm warnings
 
seems pretty cool.
We have a campus wide alert system like that. It sends an email and text message out for any emergency, like active shooter. Then there is also a home notification system for parents.
 
We had a similar system in college.. You could sign up and receive a text if they closed the campus etc...
 
The greater Philadelphia area has a multi-county alert system, and the users get to select what alerts they get, as well as if they get an email, a text message, or both. Some things they alert are major road closures, amber alerts, weather emergencies, and local EMA announcements (like "a movie is filming HERE these dates, and they will be using firearms with blanks and jumping out of helicopters")

I signed up for the municipal and traffic alerts. I'm involved with the local Skywarn group, and they have a mailing list with the severe weather outlook, as well as emergency and advisory messages. Useful stuff to get, and it usually means I know what is going to happen, weather-wise.
 
we shoulda had that here in SB. we have reverse 911 calling, but it just seems that email and text would be better. we've had 2 really bad fires out her this past 2008 and it would have been nice for us EMT's
 
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DV_EMT said:
we shoulda had that here in SB. we have reverse 911 calling, but it just seems that email and text would be better. we've had 2 really bad fires out her this past 2008 and it would have been nice for us EMT's
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There was talk of California using a state wide Amber Alert System where all cell phones in teh state recieved a cell phone text notification at no cost to the public. But last I heard was that it would takes years to work out.

My county just got reverse 911. Since it costs the saem whether we use it our not, the SO is going to try using it in addition to the Pagers we use in SAR. When a mission is in the works we will be now notified via pagers (which are problematic in teh mountains) and via phones call to home, cell, work with a short automated message informing us of the mission and such. Nice idea.
 
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