- The Public Alerts website is at www.publicalerts.org and provides a portal for all of the community notification system sign-ups in the Portland metropolitan area. This is NOT a replacement for our current system, but allows people who may work or live in a neighboring jurisdiction a “one-stop-shop” to find their home notification system.
- As always, we want you to know that the ECNS system in place here in Clark County (and across the metro area) only draws in landline phones. You MUST REGISTER your cell phone or VOIP phones with an address to receive alerts to those phones. Standard cell and/or text messaging may apply.
* The information below is shared from Public Alerts. We hope it helps explain more about this new system and how it works.
What
is PublicAlerts?
PublicAlerts
is an online connection for residents in the Portland area to real-time
emergency information, including the following:
1. Alerts and service disruptions
involving roads and bridges, transit, public health, public safety, utilities,
community services, schools and weather.
2. Links for residents to sign up for the
community emergency notification system in their county of residence.
3. Resources on how to be prepared for an
emergency and join community emergency response teams (CERT) and neighborhood
emergency teams (NET).
Who is involved with
PublicAlerts?
PublicAlerts
is administered by the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management on behalf of the
region. The lead partners are the City of Portland and Clackamas, Clark,
Columbia, Multnomah and Washington Counties. The PublicAlerts homepage
currently includes information from the following agencies:
- 211info (via
@211infoalerts)
- City of Gresham
(via @CityofGresham)
- Clackamas County
(via @clackamascounty)
- Clackamas County
Emergency Management (via @ClackamasEM)
- Clackamas Fire
District #1 (via @clackfirepio)
- Clark County
Public Health (via @ClarkCoWA_PH)
- Clark County
Public Works (via @ClarkCoWA_PW)
- Clark Regional
Emergency Services Agency (via @CRESA)
- Clark Public
Utilities (via @ClarkPubUtilFA)
- Columbia County
Rider (via @rider_cc)
- C-TRAN (via RSS
feed)
- DoveLewis (via
@dovelewis)
- Hillsboro Fire
& Rescue (via @HillsboroFire)
- Multnomah County
(via @multco)
- Multnomah County
Animal Services (via @multcopets)
- Multnomah County
Bridges (via @multcobridges)
- Multnomah County
Emergency Management (via @multcoem)
- Multnomah County
Health (via @multcohealth)
- Multnomah County
Roads (via @multcoroads)
- National Weather
Service (via two RSS feeds)
- NW Natural (via
@nwnatural)
- Oregon
Department of Transportation – TripCheck (via @TripCheckPDX)
- Oregon Office of
Emergency Management (via @OregonOEM)
- Oregon National
Guard (via @OregonGuard)
- Oregon State
Police (via @ORStatePolice)
- Pacific Power
(via RSS feed)
- PGE – Portland
General Electric (via @pgemedia)
- Port of Portland
(via @flyPDX)
- Portland Bureau
of Development Services (via @BDSPortland)
- Portland Bureau
of Emergency Management (via @PublicAlerts)
- Portland Bureau
of Environmental Services (via @BESPortland)
- Portland Bureau
of Transportation (via @PBOTinfo)
- Portland Fire
& Rescue (via @PortlandFirePIO)
- Portland Housing
Bureau (via @PortlandHousing)
- Portland Office
of Neighborhood Involvement (via @PDXInfo8234000)
- Portland Parks
& Recreation (via @PDXParksandRec)
- Portland Police
Bureau (via @PortlandPolice)
- Portland Water
Bureau (via @PortlandWater)
- Sandy Fire
District (via @SandyFireDist)
- Sellwood Bridge
(via @sellwoodbridge)
- TriMet (via RSS
feed)
- Tualatin Valley
Fire & Rescue (via @TVFR)
- U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers (via @PortlandCorps)
- U.S. Geological
Survey (via @USGSbigquakes and RSS feed)
- Washington
County Roads (via @washcoroads)
- West Linn Police
(via @WLPDNews)
In addition
to direct information feeds from the above agencies, content from school
districts is provided by FlashAlert Portland.
How can you get connected to PublicAlerts?
The Easiest ways to be connected to Public Alerts is to follow @PublicAlerts on Twitter. They will Re-Tweet any emergency notifications from the agencies listed above.
Go to the Public Alerts webpage. There you can see the entire stream of what is going on in the Metro, and surrounding area you may need to know.
Go to the Public Alerts webpage. There you can see the entire stream of what is going on in the Metro, and surrounding area you may need to know.
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