National Preparedness Month – Sign Up For Alert Montgomery

As part of National Preparedness Month, I thought it was a good time to make all of you out there aware, or remind you, of a great FREE alerting tool that you can sign up for.  It is called Alert Montgomery and the system allows you to receive important emergency alerts, notifications and updates on any and all of your electronic devices.

You can receive notifications via the following platforms:


e-mail account (work, home, other)

• cell phone
• text pager
• BlackBerry
• wireless PDA
• XM Radio Channel 214
• Twitter: Add "Montgomery County MD" in find people
• Facebook: Add "Montgomery County MD" in friends
• Facebook: Add "Montgomery County MD Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security" in friends
• Text MONTGOMERY to 411911

To learn more and sign up, please go here: ALERT MONTGOMERY