BEL AIR, MD—Harford County has rolled out a brand new and improved emergency notification system designed to supply quicker and extra dependable alerts to its residents, officers introduced Thursday.
The brand new system, dubbed HarfordCoMD Alerts, will ship real-time notifications for a spread of essential occasions, together with extreme climate warnings, infrastructure outages, main site visitors disruptions, evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, main or localized crimes, and lacking individuals.
Residents may decide to obtain non-emergency alerts overlaying public occasions, hydrant flushing schedules, and road sweeping notifications.
Whereas people registered with the county’s earlier system, Blackboard Join, have been robotically transferred, officers are encouraging all residents to create a brand new registration. This may be accomplished by texting “HarfordCoMD” to 410-457-3655 or by clicking right here. Registration is free and fast, and a number of registrations for a similar electronic mail or telephone quantity won’t end in duplicate messages. The system additionally permits for the registration of members of the family or others on their behalf.
“Public security is the highest precedence of my administration, and this new system will improve our potential to provide residents well timed and correct data to guard themselves and their family members when catastrophe strikes,” stated Harford County Government Bob Cassilly. “I encourage everybody to register with HarfordCoMD Alerts and keep protected.”
For questions, residents can contact Alex Hilber at [email protected] or John Richter at [email protected], each with the Emergency Administration Division of the Harford County Division of Emergency Companies.
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