EOC provides hurricane information directly to e-mail and cell phones

If you would like to get immediate information from Franklin County’s emergency management office regarding this year’s hurricane season – you can sign up to receive alerts through your e-mail or directly on your cell phone. The Franklin County Emergency Management office has signed up with a company called nixle.com which allows it to provide emergency information over the web, e-mail and directly to subscribers’ cell phones. The EOC issued their first alert this week for a tropical depression that is still thousands of miles away from Apalachicola. The EOC is urging Franklin County residents to register with the site so they can receive public safety threat information and information on Emergency Management activities. Registration is free and only takes a few minutes. All you have to do is go to www.nixle.com and provide your e-mail address and cell phone number as well as your street address and they’ll make sure you get any emergency information for your area. You can even sign up for addresses in other areas and keep up with emergency information for sites around Florida or around the country. The website again is www.nixle.com.