OC Sheriff to Test Emergency Mass Notification System, Alert OC

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OC Sheriff to trial exigency wide notification system, Alert OC

SANTA ANA, Ca. (Oct. 16, 2024):  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department volition trial its exigency wide notification system, AlertOC, astatine 10:17 a.m. Oct. 17 with a trial exigency alert that volition beryllium sent to residents’ mobile devices and location phones.

The trial volition replicate a large-scale, multi-jurisdictional exigency requiring thousands of numbers to beryllium called simultaneously crossed Orange County.

“Recent earthquake and occurrence enactment service arsenic an important reminder to america each to beryllium acceptable for disasters that could hap astatine immoderate time, disrupting our regular lives,” said Michelle Anderson, County Emergency Manager. “Our extremity during National Preparedness Month is to promote individuals, families, businesses, and assemblage organizations to get progressive successful preparing astatine home, work, school, and places of worship. By taking tiny steps to hole today, we support our future.” 

Disasters, specified arsenic the state’s historical wildfires oregon earthquakes, often hap rapidly, forcing evacuations and roadworthy closures to neighborhoods.

AlertOC is simply a captious nexus for residents to instantly larn of immoderate required actions, specified arsenic evacuating their homes.

The distinctive diagnostic of AlertOC is the quality for individuals to registry aggregate interaction methods and addresses. Registration of compartment telephone and alternate numbers dramatically summation the quality to scope the top fig of assemblage members wrong minutes. This enables landlines, compartment phones, and email addresses to beryllium incorporated into a azygous notification system.

Residents are encouraged to motion up at AlertOC.gov and besides visit ReadyOC.org for exigency preparedness resources, including templates for household plans, checklists to physique exigency kits, and more.

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