County Wide Alerts and Warnings
Douglas County will now be using Everbridge Aware™ Citizen Alert, an emergency notification system provided by Everbridge Global, the leading global emergency notification system provider, to communicate with thousands of businesses and residents in minutes in an emergency.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office will be able to alert residents about severe weather, fires, floods, toxic environmental issues and other emergencies using Everbridge Aware Citizen Alert. Messages can be sent to residents on any communication path desired – cell phone, home phone, email, text messaging, pager, PDA and more – ensuring that residents and County staff receive life-saving emergency information and important public service announcements in minutes. Citizens listed in the County's 9-1-1 database will be automatically subscribed to alerts by phone, though any citizen may self-register, provide additional contact information or opt out.
Subscribers to this Douglas County Emergency Alert will receive notification ONLY when there is a situation that could pose a threat to public health and/or safety or threat to property as determined by the office of Douglas County Office of Emergency Management.
Examples of such situations are those during which the public would alerted to:
1. Shelter in place;
2. Evacuate; or
3. Take action specific to a public health emergency
Weather Disturbances
An alert will not be deployed for routine notification of impending weather nor will this service be used to repeat information disseminated by the National Weather Service or other commercial weather notification web sites and other media sources.
Weather disturbances in Douglas County are typically short-lived events that are difficult to predict. The Office of Emergency Management is continually monitoring the latest forecast and actual weather conditions through multiple sources.
As part of being in a state of readiness, citizens should not rely solely on this Web site for emergency information. It is important for all citizens to be situationaly aware within their local area of all potential emergency situations.