Not Another Text Message!
by John Alesi, Mission Viejo REALTOR®
Mission Viejo CA Real Estate

At 6:25pm I received a text message. At 6:27pm I received an email message. At 6:34 I received a phone call on my home line. Pretty normal...right?

These three "contacts" are part of a new emergency notification service tested for the first time today by the the City of Mission Viejo. The city has just become associated with the AlertOC mass notification system, which is run by the County of Orange (California) to notify citizens of potential emergency systems. The system is designed to notify all citizens with one phone call from a central location. Currently, the calls are sent out to all listed primary and business phones in Mission Viejo.

Residents can visit the city web portal to add secondary phone numbers, email addresses, SMS text numbers and TTY/TDD devices for the hearing impaired. Find more information at the City of Mission Viejo or AlertOC websites.

As a post script only 4 (Buena Park, Mission Viejo, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano) of the 34 cities in Orange County have implemented the AlertOC system as of today. Some of the cities are in the process of adding the service while others are "doing their own thing".

John Alesi - REALTOR®
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