Cell Phone Alerts

If you are like most people, you probably got the first-ever presidential emergency alert on your cell phone this morning (fortunately it is in law that he can't use this system the way he uses Twitter so that's a relief).  Aside from this sort of alert which will hopefully be used rarely if ever, there are a lot of alerts you should consider opting into if you want to keep up with the latest emergency news:

• Wireless Emergency Alerts (these include AMBER Alerts, NOAA Weather Alerts, and the aforementioned Presidential Alerts).
• Your state may offer emergency alerts that you can opt in to.
• Your county may offer emergency alerts which you can opt in to.
• Your city may offer emergency alerts which you can opt in to.
• Your utility company may offer alerts which you can opt in to.
• You can sign up for the CDC's Health Alert Network which emails out health alerts with breaking health news and information.
• Your state Department of Health may offer email/push alerts on breaking health news.
• Most news apps will ask you if you want to receive breaking news push alerts.
• Your child's school district may offer emergency alerts to all parent's cell phones that are registered in their system.
• Most state Department of Transportation offices offer apps or push alerts that notify you of road, traffic, and other related incidents.
• Other services may also offer alerts and push notifications such as social media like Twitter Alerts, Google Alerts, stock price alerts, etc.