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Stay Informed
The ALERT CENTER is designed to aid in the mission of helping YOU stay prepared and better informed. Furthermore, it gives YOU the opportunity to provide the City with key information about you and your household to keep you informed with up to date information which will allow us to better help YOU during an emergency. The links provided below can be accessed for more information.
Staying informed of a potential emergency or disaster instructions is a critical component to you and your family's survival. Always use multiple modes to receive emergency information. Know how to tune your television to local television stations using the TV set antenna should cable TV be interrupted.
REVERSE 911® is a communications solution that uses a patented combination of database and GIS mapping technologies to deliver outbound notifications through landlines and cell-phones. In case of an emergency, the Providence Emergency Management Agency can quickly target a precise geographic area of the City and saturate it with thousands of notification calls per hour.The system's interactive technology provides immediate interaction with call recipients and aids in rapid response to specific needs of the community. (your regular house phone is already part of this system and there is no need to add that number here. However Cell Phones are not and you are encouraged to register your cell phone)
Sign-up your Cell Phone for the FREE REVERSE 911 capability TODAY!
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) and the Providence Emergency Management Agency have aided in the developed an online registry for Rhode Island residents with disabilities, chronic conditions and special health care needs. The information that you provide may help emergency responders meet your needs during an emergency.
FLASHbrief is an instantaneous, Internet-based, mass alert notification system. It is specifically designed for municipal areas to relay both ADVISORY and EMERGENCY alerts to citizens' computers in a matter of seconds. FLASHbrief's state of the art software securely harnesses the power of the Internet to bring a new level of emergency communication capability to residents of entire metropolitan populations. In seconds!
Sign-up for the FREE FLASHbrief capability TODAY!
Citizens know they can rely on the Providence Emergency Management Agency to be there for them when disaster strikes. As an agency, we work to meet immediate emergency needs for food, clothing and shelter, as well as medical and emotional support but, we cannot do that job alone. We need people like YOU to become trained volunteers, able and willing to perform a variety of critical roles during emergencies. Partnering with the Rhode Island Red Cross our Agency provides all training free of charge. Volunteer hours are flexible and new volunteers are always needed.
