BLIND RIVER COMMUNITY ALERTS

BLIND RIVER COMMUNITY ALERTS

 

 

                  

                    

 

The Town of Blind River would like to introduce our residents to our new Emergency Alert System, Voyent Alert!. It allows residents to use an App or sign up online to receive text, email and phone alerts such as Road Closures, Public Meetings, Service interruptions, construction projects, AND MORE!

You can download an app called VOYENT ALERT! online. It is available from the App Store or GooglePlay. 

It is easy to register. If you need assistance, the staff at the municipal office can help you register. Call 705-356-2251 or stop by the municipal office at 11 Hudson Street.

Click the link to watch a short informative video about why it will be beneficial to register for the Voyent Alert! 

HOW TO REGISTER:

Registration for this service is FREE and simple.

Mobile App users: Download and install the Voyent Alert! app from Apple or Google Play app stores.

Email, Phone or SMS Users: Click the to register online at https://register.voyent-alert.com to receive email, text message or voice call Alerts.

Once you have downloaded the app and registered you can click here for instructions on how to indicate the alerts you want to receive, add your location and more.

 

 TIP: Make sure you have push notifications enabled for the Voyent Alert! app.

What You Can Expect

Personalized Communications: Voyent Alert! provides informative communications. Critical information such as the distance and direction from an incident, time of intercept and preferred evacuation routes from your followed locations are provided.

Follow Multiple Locations: Voyent Alert! allows you to create and follow multiple locations such as “Kids School” or “Mom’s House”. Any event or communication related to your followed locations will be forwarded to you along your preferred communication channel.

No Message Fatigue: Voyent Alert’s smart alerting capabilities ensure that you will only get notified when a communication is relevant to you or one of the locations you are following.

Communications Your Way: Receive alerts over a wide variety of communication channels including mobile apps, text/SMS alerting, email or voice calling. You can register for all or one of them.

Privacy is Paramount: Registration is anonymous, and no information volunteered or derived is shared or used for marketing or data harvesting purposes. Locational information from your followed locations is only used to determine its proximity to an alert event and to provide critical context within the communications (such as distance and direction).

Leaving is Easy: Both mobile applications and web-based accounts provide access to an unsubscribe feature accessed via the menu icon on the top right of the screen/page. If the service isn’t working out simply click on the “Unsubscribe” button and you won’t be hearing from us again.

For more information you can check out the FAQ and the Voyent Alert Privacy Policy.

Click the following link for an easy to follow consumer registration tutorial