AlertOC notifications can occur at any time, given the nature of emergencies. The system will be used by emergency response personnel to notify those homes and businesses at risk with information on a perceived, emerging, or imminent emergency event and/or actions (such as evacuation, shelter in place, gas leak, missing person, etc.) that residents or businesses are asked to take.
Being prepared can reduce the fear, anxiety and losses that accompany emergencies or disasters. Communities, families, and individuals should know what to do in the event of an earthquake and where to seek shelter during a fire. They should be ready to evacuate their homes and take refuge in public shelters and know how to care for their basic medical needs.
If an emergency or disaster occurs in your community, local government and disaster relief organizations will try to help you. But you need to be ready as well. Local responders may not be able to reach you immediately or they may need to focus their efforts elsewhere. You should know how to respond to severe weather or any disaster that could occur in your area, including earthquakes, wildfires, landslides, pandemic, flooding, terrorism and more. You should also be ready to be self-sufficient for three to seven days. This may mean providing for your own shelter, first aid, food, water and sanitation.
For more information on emergency preparedness,
> See Emergency Preparedness Resources: ReadyOC.
The vast majority of Orange County residents have not made any preparations for an emergency. If an earthquake started rumbling or you noticed smoke in the hills on your commute, what would you do first? Do you know which types of disasters affect Orange County the most and how to prepare for them?
More than 82% of U.S. residents are aware that emergency preparedness is important to handle disasters, according to a 2009 Citizen Corps National Survey. Yet, most people have made little, if any, actual preparations.
Everyone needs to take a role in helping protect each other and our families and friends in the event of an emergency. From the Yorba Linda fires to the Laguna Beach landslides to ever-present earthquakes, our county continuously faces emergency situations.
Developed for the Orange County community, the ReadyOC website contains step-by-step advice on how to prepare for disasters, will help you to be ready when the time comes and provides you with a resource for information on how to respond or recover during an emergency situation.
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Signing up for AlertOC takes just a few minutes. You will be asked to create a username and password so you can log in and change your information at any time. Also, you will need a working email address.