County has emergency alert system

People can sign up, update information online

After recent weatherrelated events throughout California and local emergency’s within the last year, Tulare County reminds residents to sign up for Alerttc or to ensure their information is correctly listed within the system.

After recent weatherrelated events throughout California and local emergency’s within the last year, Tulare County reminds residents to sign up for Alerttc or to ensure their information is correctly listed within the system.

Alerttc allows officials to record, send and track personalized voice messages to thousands of residents, businesses, and local agencies in just minutes, through a single phone call. The county can also send text messages to cell phones, PDAS, e-mail accounts, and TTY/TDD receiving devices for the hearing impaired. The service requires no additional hardware. It can be accessed from any computer with Internet access or just a telephone, ensuring that officials can send vital messages from wherever they are located.

County administrators can target messages to an unlimited number of groups — everything from mobilizing emergency response teams to coordinating efforts with necessary agencies or volunteers. Authorized users use a map on the Alerttc system to contact specific geographical locations, sending messages only to the residents within select neighborhoods when needed.

The goal of these alerts are to ensure that the right information gets to the right people at the right time. Recently these alerts were used in Tulare County to notify residence of evacuations in the area of the Pier Fire. This is only one way that officials notify residences of emergency notifications, but it is the quickest at getting the information out.

Residents can sign up through https://alerttc. com/alerttc/.