A free service\nis available to Yakima area residents that provides emergency alerts via voice\nor text communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Offered by\nEverbridge, the service is the emergency notification system for Yakima Valley Emergency\nManagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I encourage City of Yakima residents to sign up for this system so they can stay in the know when there are emergencies in our area,” said Assistant Yakima Mayor Dulce Guti\u00e9rrez, who also chairs the City Council’s Public Safety Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sign up for the emergency alert system by clicking www.yakimacounty.us\/AlertYakima<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Information is also\navailable by visiting www.co.yakima.wa.us\/oem<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “It only\ntakes a couple of minutes to sign up and is very simple,” said Yakima Fire\nChief Aaron Markham. “If someone is signing up via a mobile device they\nneed to go to the app store and download Everbridge.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Users can opt-in\nto enter their contact information and subscribe to emergency notifications\nbased on their location. The information is protected and will not be used for\nany other purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They can also\nspecify particular times during the day when they would prefer to block\nnotifications. Users can select notification options that include text, e-mail,\ncell phone, home landline, work phone or the mobile app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This system will be\nused to notify users about imminent threats to health and safety as well as\ninformational notifications that affect their locations or work environments.\nAdministrators will send notifications regarding severe weather or other local\nemergencies via the notification methods that users specify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A free service is available to Yakima area residents that provides emergency alerts via voice or text communications. Offered by Everbridge, the service is the emergency notification system for Yakima Valley Emergency Management. “I encourage City of Yakima residents to sign up for this system so they can stay in the know when there are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}