SunComm 9-1-1 Communications has\nadded an additional emergency number to the county system in the event of a\n9-1-1 outage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“SunComm is asking residents\nto add (509) 453-9000 to their home emergency plan, including mobile and computer-based\nphone systems,” said Brad Coughenour, Director of SunComm Communications. “The\n(509) 453-9000 number should only be used if residents receive a notification\nof 9-1-1 services being disrupted or they attempt to call 9-1-1 and receive a\nbusy signal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, SunComm recommends families\nteach their children their home address and phone number in case of\nemergencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visit https:\/\/yakima911.org\/<\/a> for more information\nabout SunComm 9-1-1 Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, community members\nare encouraged to sign up for Alert Yakima, a free\nprogram that provides emergency alerts via voice or text communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Offered by\nEverbridge, the service is the emergency notification system for Yakima Valley\nEmergency Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sign up for the\nemergency alert system by clicking www.yakimacounty.us\/AlertYakima<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit www.co.yakima.wa.us\/oem<\/a> for\nadditional information about Alert Yakima. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Everbridge\napp is also available at no charge on Google Play and the Apple app store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SunComm 9-1-1 Communications has added an additional emergency number to the county system in the event of a 9-1-1 outage. “SunComm is asking residents to add (509) 453-9000 to their home emergency plan, including mobile and computer-based phone systems,” said Brad Coughenour, Director of SunComm Communications. “The (509) 453-9000 number should only be used if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}