The City of Santa Clarita has recently launched a new e-Alert system which allows residents to subscribe and receive mobile phone text messages in the event of a local emergency. To sign-up for this service, residents need to simply text SCEMERGENCY to 41411 and then they will be automatically subscribed to receive emergency text updates from the City. In addition, residents can also visit the City's website at www.santa-clarita.com/emergency and enter their mobile phone number in the "Text Message Alerts" subscription box located on the right side of the page to sign-up.
The City will utilize the e-Alert system only in times of emergency and will in no way use this system to forward any non-emergency/unsolicited messages.
“As Santa Clarita approaches the one year anniversaries of the I-5 Tunnel Accident and the Buckweed Wild Fire, the City has implemented this system that allows residents to sign-up for the new text service so that in the event of an emergency, subscribers will then automatically receive emergency related text alerts,” said Frank Ferry, Mayor Pro-tem.
As with any type of texting system, standard texting fees, charged by the mobile phone provider, do apply to the e-Alert system.
For more information regarding the City's new eAlert system please contact the City's Webmaster at webmaster@santa-clarita.com.
