California Incident Notification

[mkewman]

Hey everyone!

I'm thinking about starting a FREE/donation basis incident notification service. I haven't yet found a decent Incident notification service for california. would anyone be interested in being a part of the creation and startup of such a service?

Let me know, PM me.

Mark

 

[radio10-8]

Ipn

Mark, I have used IPN for at least 2 years and I enjoy it. Have you tried them?
http://www.incidentpage.net

 

[cristisphoto]

INcident in California

IPN is cool!
But they ain't free ...
What he ,the oroginal poster was reffering too is a free/donation Incident......
Any how I would help .
buut I would only be able at certain times as I am not always online.
I depend on WIFI Cafe's,
and as such ,currently have NO Internet Access at my residence...
If interested though I can defintley contribute..
Regards
Crista

 

[EMSJUNKY]

What regions are you looking at covering.... the hwy 49 corridor (placer, eldorado, amador, calaveras, tuolumne, etc) would be great.

If you want weather / major incident info, including shelter in place notifications, you can utilize EDIS..... AND ITS FREE!!!! You can select what you would like to recieve and what regions.
http://www.incident.com/edismail.shtml

If you are in the bay area, you can utilize firedispatch.com (click on myfiredispatch). They can send an email, text message, or page for incidents in san mateo county, santa cruz co, palo alto, and san ramon valley (southern contra costa co).

Hope these help.

 

[brandon]

In SoCal there is IPN, SBN, and In-Progress (YahooGroups).
I believe there might be a northern CA group similar to In-Progress... I could be wrong though.

 

[Mick]

SoCal Breaking News also

There's a socalbreakingnews Yahoo group too.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/socalbreakingnews/

 

[radio10-8]

Sign up to be an IPN Dispatcher and your access to IPN is free! I have never paid for IPN service. When I am monitoring and something good comes over the radio and if I am near a computer I will send a dispatch. It very easy to do. Give it a try.

 

[cristisphoto]

What regions are you looking at covering.... the hwy 49 corridor (placer, eldorado, amador, calaveras, tuolumne, etc) would be great.

If you want weather / major incident info, including shelter in place notifications, you can utilize EDIS..... AND ITS FREE!!!! You can select what you would like to recieve and what regions.
http://www.incident.com/edismail.shtml

If you are in the bay area, you can utilize firedispatch.com (click on myfiredispatch). They can send an email, text message, or page for incidents in san mateo county, santa cruz co, palo alto, and san ramon valley (southern contra costa co).

Hope these help.

They help me!!
Cool site
Thank emsJunkie
Crista

 

[cristisphoto]

Sign up to be an IPN Dispatcher and your access to IPN is free! I have never paid for IPN service. When I am monitoring and something good comes over the radio and if I am near a computer I will send a dispatch. It very easy to do. Give it a try.

Good point!
However for me I am only online at WIFI cafe's
Therefore,
Well
I think it self explanatory LOL
Regards,
Crista

PS
I would sign up but you need to be online constantly...
I I am wrong then I am always open for school LOl

 

[EMSJUNKY]

If y'all have have cellphones and pagers (text pagers), many of them have quazi email (ie: 4155551234@verizon.net. etc). Check with your pager and cell carriers to determine that your email is. Therefore, you can recieve text message pages from Firedispatch.com, EDIS, etc. Therefore, when you are away from the computer or internet access, you can still recieve the notifications. I recieve the EDIS, FireDispatch.com, and the SBN messages on my pager. Its quite nice for those of you who want to tune in to major incidents but dont want to be sitting at the scanner 24/7. With that said, take note that that EDIS is for extremely large incidents (mostly those that require evacs), Firedispatch has about a 2-5 minute delay from time of actual dispatch to the message getting to your mobile device. SBN relies on volunteer dispatchers to send the pages. I have recieved pages 2 minutes after the initial alarm, up to an hour after the initial alarm. If you want quick pages, utilize Firedispatch.com. if you want a greater region coverage, utilize SBN.

http://www.firedispatch.com/
http://www.scannerbuff.net/
http://www.incident.com/edismail.shtml

Just some more information for y'all to chew on.

 

[mkewman]

i have issues with IPN, i quit being a dispatcher for them.

I'm wishing to focus on all of california, but ESPECIALLY the hwy 49 corridor and the fire season.

does anyone know any good webbased software that sends mass email/sms?

 

[Cressida81]

Scanner Buff site has been very good for southern california. I reccomend them

 

[EMSJUNKY]

the issue no paging system covers the 49 corridor counties and stuff for the fire season. From my experience, most of the sbn dispatches are structure fires.

 

[pfish]

does anyone know any good webbased software that sends mass email/sms?

Something homebrew would work best to fit your exact needs. I'd use SQL to store the addresses/info, then use a Perl script to shoot them out. If you want it to be web based, I'd use PHP. I'll show you an example of a script I use for an "emergency pager" for downtime and stuff.

 

[masterhack]

In SoCal there is IPN, SBN, and In-Progress (YahooGroups).
I believe there might be a northern CA group similar to In-Progress... I could be wrong though.

hey Brandon, having trouble finding those yahoo groups. Could you link them? TIA