![]() ![]() Related: Does your Giving Day campaign welcome everyone, or turn away people who don’t look like you? Unfortunately, SIREN’s Rave platform relies on an outdated database that only supports First Name and Last Name fields to capture people’s names, leaving out community members whose identities don’t fit into just those two boxes, including people from many cultures around the world where three-part, four-part, and five-part names are more common, notably Asian, Arabic, and Latin cultures. “Your information was migrated to this new system so you would not miss alerts and notifications during the transition period, but you will need to create a SIREN account/profile by Decemand select your notification preferences and how you wish to receive alerts (voice, text, e-mail),” county officials say.Īnyone without web access on a computer or smartphone can text SIREN to 67283 from any mobile phone, sign up at a public computer at a local library, call 2-1-1 (1-87) and ask for assistance, or contact local municipality offices for help. Users who have relied on migrated accounts from the old Swift 911 system will find those accounts purged at the end of the month, though. “These include notifications about severe weather, safety, health, utility disruptions, major traffic incidents, construction, and more.” “In addition to emergency alerts, you can also choose to receive additional community notifications based on your interests or location,” Geoff Dunn at Tompkins County’s Department of Emergency Response said this spring. SIREN stands for “Safety & Incident Realtime Emergency Notifications,” and the system, based on the same Rave Mobile Safety platform used by Cornell University for a few years, offers alerts via text message, e-mail, and voice phone call for a wide range of situations, and for countywide concerns or messages from individual municipalities. Related: New community alert system combines Tompkins, Ithaca, Cornell, and more Tompkins County began using a new emergency alert system this spring, migrating users of the previous Swift 911 system to the new SIREN tool and encouraging new sign-ups, but officials announced this fall they will purge all migrated accounts of users who haven’t taken the additional step of filling out a SIREN profile, at the end of the year. ![]()
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