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The City of Thibodaux Selects Emergency Notification Provider: Hyper-Reach Chosen to Help Protect Lives and Property
| Post Date | Updated At |
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| Wednesday, Nov. 10th at 3:14 PM | Wednesday, Nov. 10th at 3:24 PM |
Phone: 446-7237
Email: eoc@ci.thibodaux.la.us
Telephone-based
mass notifications systems are used by thousands of public safety agencies
across the US to warn citizens about local emergencies, hazards, and other
threats. Now the City of Thibodaux
announces that they have selected Hyper-Reach to help bring this same
life-saving capability to the area. Hyper-Reach
is a state-of-the-art mass emergency notification system designed specifically
for public safety.
The new
emergency alert system will provide rapid notification of hazardous and urgent
situations using a mix of telephone calls, text and email messages, and even
TTY/TDD service for the hearing impaired.
The system sends thousands of these messages to geographically targeted
households in seconds, and can simultaneously deliver them to an even broader
audience via social media, as well as sending broadcast messages to most
current mobile telephones (made since 2011) in an affected area by providing
access to FEMA’s Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system.
“Our job is to protect the citizens of the
City of Thibodaux as effectively and cost-effectively as possible,” said Mayor
Tommy Eschete. “We reviewed all the
major vendors for emergency notification service, and Hyper-Reach gave us
everything we needed at an unbelievable price.
We’re really excited about this new capability.”
The City
plans to use the service primarily for alerts about weather and environmental
hazards, criminal activity, and missing persons.
Landline phones are automatically enrolled for Community alerts, but
Weather alerts to landline phones and Community and Weather alerts to VoIP
phones, mobile phones, and email addresses are only included when people
enroll. Residents and people who work
in the City of Thibodaux are encouraged to enroll now (using a city address) either
by calling or texting “Alert” to (985) 316-5414 or by going to the website http://hyper-reach.com/lathibodauxsignup.html.
Citizens can get
emergency alerts via their Alexa-enabled smart speakers just by saying “Alexa,
enable Hyper-Reach” and following the Alexa-provided instructions. With more
than 50 million US households using Alexa devices, there are obviously hundreds
of City residents with Alexa units.
Citizens
can also download the Hyper-Reach Anywhere app on their smartphones. Hyper-Reach Anywhere is a free smartphone app that
allows individual citizens to manage and monitor the alerts they receive, both
for their home and office addresses and for other addresses they care about
such as those of elderly relatives or friends.
“We’re
honored to have been selected by the City of Thibodaux Louisiana to provide its
emergency alerts,” said Sam Asher, President of Hyper-Reach. “It’s gratifying to be part of an effort to
save lives and protect property and we take that responsibility very
seriously.”
About
Hyper-Reach