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Bloomz for Cities›For Emergency Management
For Emergency Management

Emergency Management: warnings that reach people without a login.

Weather warnings rebroadcast automatically, evacuation notices target the neighborhoods that need them, and residents reply in their own language.

City of Fort MeadeWeather Alerts · Set the zone
National Weather Service alerts
Bloomz checks your zone and passes alerts on.
Minimum severity
AdvisoryWatchWarning
Send automatically
Off lets you set up the zone first. Alerts are logged but not sent.
WATCHfrom the National Weather Service
Flood Watch
Sent word for word as an urgent alert, translated for each resident, on every channel.

Choose the minimum severity and whether alerts send automatically.

Step 1 of 3: Set the zone
Illustrative screens with demo data
The challenge

A warning only helps if it reaches the people it is about.

Contact lists go stale, many residents never signed up for the alert tool, and storm warnings get re-typed by hand while you are busy with everything else.

An opt-in list reaches the people who signed up, not the household that moved in last month.

During a storm, someone re-types the National Weather Service warning into three different tools.

A warning in English only does not reach every household.

One channel fails and you find out after the fact, not during the event.

A day in the role

Storm day, from warning to all-clear.

5:00
A warning is issued

The National Weather Service warning for your zone is rebroadcast on every channel, without anyone re-typing it.

6:00
Evacuation notice

Staff send a notice to the neighborhoods in the flood area, in each resident's language.

8:00
Replies come in

A resident writes that a road is still flooded. Staff read it translated, in English.

11:00
Delivery check

Per-channel delivery shows which households need a second contact.

4:00
All-clear

The all-clear goes out the same way the warning did.

The Bloomz difference

Public-app devices get the alert too.

Neighborhood alerts include devices where the resident uses the public app without an account. Weather warnings come from the National Weather Service, and Bloomz rebroadcasts the text the Service issued instead of writing its own.

4
channels on every send: app push, email, SMS and voice call
Questions we hear

What emergency managers ask first.

How are weather warnings turned on?

A city admin enables Weather Alerts, picks the National Weather Service zones and sets the minimum severity that should go out. Warnings below that level are not rebroadcast.

Do rebroadcasts need staff approval?

Once configured, rebroadcasts run on their own for warnings that meet your severity setting. Alerts that staff write themselves are reviewed and sent by a person.

Can residents reply?

Yes. Replies reach staff translated into English, and you can answer in the resident's language.

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