Lee County Emergency Management Testing New Public Notification System Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Lee County Emergency Management, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the Lee County Port Authority and the cities of Fort Myers and Sanibel recently signed a contract with Emergency Communications Network to lease its CodeRED high-speed emergency notifications system. CodeRED, already in place in Cape Coral and Fort Myers Beach, now geographically covers all of Lee County to allow residents to receive health and safety alerts.
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Lee County, FL, AUGUST 18, 2010: Wednesday, Lee County Emergency Management will test its new emergency public notification system that will alert residents and employers about health and safety issues ranging from a widespread mandatory hurricane evacuation to a partial neighborhood lockdown due to law enforcement action in the area.
Lee County Emergency Management, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the Lee County Port Authority and the cities of Fort Myers and Sanibel recently signed a contract with Emergency Communications Network to lease its CodeRED high-speed emergency notifications system. CodeRED, already in place in Cape Coral and Fort Myers Beach, now geographically covers all of Lee County.
J. A. Stakenburg, Operations Manager for Emergency Management, urges all individuals and businesses to enter their notification numbers for all pertinent addresses, such as home, business, and the address of anyone they care for.
“Especially those with unlisted numbers, a changed phone number in the past year, a changed home address in the past year and those using as their primary contact a cellular phone or a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone should enter their contact information on the CodeRED link,” said Stakenburg. “You can’t check to see if your information is in there, but the system will recognize duplicate phone numbers and not call you twice.”
One can add their personal contact information by logging onto the website of any participating public safety agency or to Emergency Management’s website www.LeeEOC.com and clicking on the CodeRED community notification enrollment link. Anyone without internet capabilities can register their information online through the Lee County Library’s Reference Desk, a friend or neighbor's computer, or as a last resort by calling the system administrator at the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at 239-477-1228, Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
One individual can program the system to call a home phone, cell phone, text number and email for one geographical address. The system can hold information for an unlimited amount of addresses.