Emergencies and Disasters
Telling the public when an emergency strikes.
Are you prepared if an emergency strikes? How will you keep the public informed and still meet the federal standards for emergency preparedness? If you are part of the government, a municipal department, or company with a mandate to prepare for emergencies, then you need a reliable and effective way to get information to thousands of people when an emergency strikes.
Quickly disseminate important information.
When an emergency or disaster strikes you need to be able to quickly communicate with thousands or millions of people. You need to tell them where to go, what to do and how to get help. Getting this information to so many people can be a daunting task, but in emergencies, agencies like the U.S. Army Corps, Environment Canada, The Red Cross and British Nuclear Sellafield rely on an emergency messaging system (EMS) to deliver critical information and instructions 24 hours-a-day. Within minutes of a disaster the emergency messaging system can be deployed to answer telephone calls, play messages to people calling a specific phone number, or broadcast emergency information via a radio transmitter. An EMS can provide people with a wealth of information including: evacuation details, emergency numbers, where to go for help, what things people should do and continuous updates on the situation.
Typical applications include:
• Hurricane Information
• Flood Information
• Bio-terrorism Response Information
• Evacuation Procedures
• Contamination Warnings
• Where to go for assistance
• Who to call to report outages
• City/County Emergency Plan Information
• General emergency messages
What does an emergency messaging system do?
1. Alerts the public when an emergency strikes:
An emergency messaging system is a critical part of any government, municipal or corporate emergency messaging plan. They are an excellent tool to quickly and reliably, communicate information to thousands of people at the same time.
2. Provides valuable information:
An emergency message system provides callers with a lot of valuable information including: evacuation details, emergency numbers, where to go for help, what people should do and continuous updates on the situation.
3. Disseminates information to a large number of people:
With an emergency message system people can often get the information they need without even having to talk to a live person. It is an excellent way to communicate the same information to thousands of people at the same time without needing to have a huge team of agents answering the phone.
4. Allows administrators to easily update information:
So many people rely on emergency information so it needs to be accurate, this means messages need to be updated as frequently as conditions change. Administrators should be able to easily record new messages or activate pre-recorded messages in a matter of seconds, even if they are not physically located at the site that is experiencing the problem.
Interalia can help!
With over 31 years experience and 250,000 installations in 60 countries around the world, Interalia has the solutions you need to quickly disseminate emergency and disaster information.
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