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Do I need to report receiving an alert? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

Do I need to report receiving an alert?

For the NOAA Weather Radio portion of the exercise, you can call or email the Department of Emergency Management to report receiving or not receiving the message via your radio…

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What will weather radio alert message say? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

What will weather radio alert message say?

As this will be a live test, to prevent the chance of confusion or misinterpretation of alerts causing panic, the only message sent will clearly identify itself as a test…

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What can you do to participate? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

What can you do to participate?

If you haven’t, register for SoCoAlert. Only residents who live in the two designated evacuation zones (Fountaingrove 2 and Montecito Heights) will receive the SoCoAlert messages on August 17. You…

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What systems/procedures are being tested? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

What systems/procedures are being tested?

SoCoAlert (Sonoma County Alert System) alert and warning messages will be sent to assess the capabilities of two available alert and warning system providers — CodeRED and Everbridge — to…

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Why did you choose these areas for the exercise? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

Why did you choose these areas for the exercise?

The two areas in Santa Rosa — the Montecito Heights and Fountaingrove 2 designated evacuation zones — were picked because they have similar geography and demographics so that we could…

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What will be accomplished from conducting the exercise? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

What will be accomplished from conducting the exercise?

The Sonoma County Alert System (SoCoAlert) exercise will let emergency officials compare how two alert and warning system providers (CodeRED and Everbridge) perform in reaching residents of two areas east…

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Who is participating in the exercise? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

Who is participating in the exercise?

Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management Santa Rosa Fire Department Santa Rosa Police Department Fountaingrove homeowners’ association Montecito Heights homeowners’ association National Weather Service SF Bay Area/Monterey

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Will you be doing this in other Sonoma County neighborhoods? 150 150 Sonoma County Emergency and Preparedness Information

Will you be doing this in other Sonoma County neighborhoods?

Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management conducts smaller-scale tests periodically throughout the County over the course of the year. We only do one large-scale test per year, and we rotate…

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