Seconds Count in an Emergency

Black Hawk County, as a member of the Black Hawk County Emergency Management Commission, has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas of the County in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices).

The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers our recorded message to a live person or an answering machine, making three attempts to connect to any number.

The Emergency Notification System will go into full effect July 1, 2009. In preparation, you can enter your information into the Emergency Notification System now.

THIS SYSTEM WILL ONLY BE USED FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES.

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Examples of times when the CodeRED system could be utilized:

• Drinking water contamination
• Utility outage
• Evacuation notice & route
• Missing person
• Fires or Floods
• Bomb threat
• Hostage situation
• Chemical spill or Gas leak

The CodeRED system is a geographical based notification system, which means street addresses are needed to select which phone numbers will receive emergency notification calls. Businesses will need to enter their phone numbers into the emergency notification database. The information will only be used for emergency notification purposes.