SRD Switching To Alertable

The Strathcona Regional District will be switching to Alertable as its emergency mass notification service as of May 2nd.

The Strathcona Regional District will be switching to Alertable as its emergency mass notification service as of May 2nd. If you had an account with the previous system, your information will be transferred automatically into Alertable. If you did not previously have an account, you can set one up at https://srd.ca/services/emergency-preparedness/alerts-notifications/ after May 2nd.

 SRD Chair Brad Unger says that information is a vital form of aid in itself. Disaster-affected people need information as much as water, food, medicine, or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods, and resources. This is why the Regional District is switching to Alertable as the public emergency mass notification service. Adding the previous system would call landlines, cell phones, as well as text cell phones. That feature will not change, however, Alertable provides additional ways to notify people when protective actions need to be taken.

There is one action required by residents. The phone number that will call you is changing. On May 2nd everyone who had an account with Connect Rocket will receive a welcome message from Alertable. The SRD asks that you save that number in your phone under SRD Emergency Notification.

Alertable is the only commercial emergency alerting platform that is fully integrated with Canada’s national public alert system, Alert Ready. People with smartphones that are not compatible with Alert Ready’s new wireless alerting can still be notified with Alertable. For those that do have compatible phones, Alertable still provides a way to receive a wireless alert when away from home or work.  Alertable will cover every community in the SRD, exactly the same way the previous system did.