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Emergency notification system launched Monica Lamb-Yorski Staff Writer In an area where cell service or even a traditional landline isn’t a given, Cariboo Regional District chair Al Richmond said he’s relieved there’s an emergency notification system coming to the region. “We have had particular issues
in rural areas where people don’t necessarily have phone service, but learned they had Internet access to phone by satellite,” Richmond said. After the wildfire season of 2010 he said it became apparent the Cariboo-Chilcotin needed a way to communicate with residents quickly and accurately during emergencies.
Five years later the CRD, in partnership with the districts of 100 Mile House and Wells, Quesnel and Williams Lake, will launch the Everbridge Emergency Notification System free of charge to provide mass emergency notifications throughout the region. It will go in effect on May 5, 2015. “This option provides people,
particularly from a rural area, with the ability to receive information by texts, e-mail, work or cell phone,” Richmond said. “It’s been a collaborative effort, saying we need to do something better.” Previously the CRD would notify people using a call list, but that didn’t always work for everyone. See REMOTE Page A3
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