The City of Thornton has announced that it has replaced the old CodeRed emergency alert system with a new one called “ThorntonReady Emergency Alerts.”  We highly recommend all residents sign up for the new system immediately.

With the system you can choose exactly which types of events you want to be notified about – civic alerts, weather advisories, weather warnings, etc. Additionally, you control how you want to be notified whether by phone call, text, email or all of them.

We found that they wanted to alert users with an entire gamut of alerts, many which don’t really warrant a middle-of-the-night phone call. However, the ability to be notified about the more common advisories is a nice touch and helps to keep you informed.

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For us, we opted out of calls for advisories although being geeks we don’t mind the texts or emails. For calls, we chose only tornado warnings. If you are in an area where appropriate, we would suggest also opting in for calls for flash flood warnings. See attached screenshot of our choices.

Should you desire, you can also add information about your household that could be seen my emergency responders should an emergency arise. These include other members of the household, special health requirements, pets and more.

We chose not to add the personal information at this time as we are somewhat suspicious of what that information could be used for and who it may be shared with beyond first responders.

This service is crucial to ensuing you are notified about dangerous conditions at your home. Please do sign up.

Click here to learn more and sign up for ThorntonReady Emergency Alerts.