{"id":26886,"date":"2024-07-01T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/county-urges-citizens-to-sign-up-for-emergency-alert-system\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:47:56","slug":"county-urges-citizens-to-sign-up-for-emergency-alert-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/county-urges-citizens-to-sign-up-for-emergency-alert-system\/","title":{"rendered":"County urges citizens to sign up for emergency alert system"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Community Emergency Response Team helps prepare citizens for emergencies in the county. (Montezuma County Website)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The county is hoping more residents will sign up for the emergency alert system<\/div>\n

Montezuma County officials urge residents to sign up for the county\u2019s emergency alert system, as well as providing more information on its community emergency preparedness team and the fire alert page on the county\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Emergency<\/strong> alert<\/strong> system<\/strong><\/div>\n

The county emergency alert system provides updates to incidents such as road closures, missing people, severe weather, wildfires, evacuations and shelter-in-place notices.<\/p>\n

The alerts can be tailored to specific neighborhoods and parts of the county.<\/p>\n

Montezuma County public information officer Vicki Shaffer said while there are about 26,000 people in the county, only 2,500 people have signed up for the system.<\/p>\n

The alert system helps get the word out to residents.<\/p>\n

When there was a street shooting in Cortez last year, system users were alerted so that they could avoid the area.<\/p>\n

To sign up, residents can visit the emergency alert system page on the county\u2019s website<\/a> https:\/\/member.everbridge.net\/337829242601830\/login.<\/p>\n

Community<\/strong> Emergency<\/strong> Response<\/strong> Team<\/strong><\/div>\n

Community Emergency Response Team still has room for residents to sign up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still will be taking interest from people until we actually start the training,\u201d Shaffer told The<\/em> Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As of right now, they are unsure of when training will begin, Shaffer said.<\/p>\n

CERT<\/a> is a program created with the support of the Montezuma and Dolores county Offices of Emergency Management, and trains those who join how to aid others in the community in the case of natural disaster or other emergency.<\/p>\n

Before the first informational meeting June 13, Shaffer told The<\/em> Journal<\/em> that CERT aims to empower people to make their community safer and more resilient during an emergency.<\/p>\n

Participants are taught emergency and survival skills from first responders, and learn skills such as disaster response techniques, reducing injuries and property damage, first aid and CPR.<\/p>\n

The training is free to the public, and the emergency supplies are included.<\/p>\n

People can sign up on the county\u2019s website<\/a> at https:\/\/montezumacounty.org\/community-emergency-response-team-cert\/.<\/p>\n

County<\/strong> fire<\/strong> information<\/strong><\/div>\n

Shaffer also shared that the county has a fire informational page on their website that provides information and updates on fire bans, wildfires, fire restrictions and red flag days.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time they implement statewide resolution or a countywide fire ban or anything like that, all that information is in one place,\u201d Shaffer said.<\/p>\n

To learn more about fire bans or current fire restrictions in the county, visit the fire informational page online<\/a> at https:\/\/montezumacounty.org\/fire-restriction-information\/.<\/p>\n

Information regarding air quality in the county can find it on the county\u2019s website as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Community Emergency Response Team helps prepare citizens for emergencies in the county. (Montezuma County Website) The county is hoping more residents will sign up for the emergency alert system Montezuma County officials urge residents to sign up for the county\u2019s emergency alert system, as well as providing more information on its community emergency preparedness team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,28,83,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79507,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions\/79507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26886"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}