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Do you want to be the first to know what is happening in Grant County that can affect anything from your safety to your commute? The Grant County Emergency Management Agency and Nixle are ready to send you weather & specific hazard updates.

Grant County Emergency Management is utilizing a new communications service that allows us to send important, valuable community information directly to residents using the latest technology.

The Nixle Community Information Service allows us to create and publish messages to be delivered to subscribed residents instantly via cell phone text message and/or email. Notifications can also be accessed online at Nixle’s website at Nixle.com.

You choose the information you want, for the locations you want, from urgent public safety alerts to less time-sensitive advisories and community information. The messages can be sent specifically to residents registered within a ¼ mile radius, giving them the opportunity to receive trustworthy information relevant only to their neighborhood.

You choose how you want to receive the information, whether it’s over your cell phone by text message, by email, or over the web (or all of the above). You stay connected to what is happening in the community at locations that are relevant to you.

Registration is FREE, SIMPLE, and SECURE!

While we do not issue a large volume of messages, we believe that this will be a helpful tool in directly alerting Grant County residents of events relating to public safety, general advisories, and in the event of an emergency - critical or useful information. Only specific warnings for Grant County residents will be sent out via text such as tornadoes, severe weather, flooding, travel alerts/watches/warnings, and hazardous material incidents. Attached to these messages will be the appropriate actions to take to stay safe.

Grant County also has the Nixle system set to automatically send a message to users for the following National Weather Service notifications: TORNADO WARNING, SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING, and HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WARNING. This means you will receive these weather notifications as soon as the National Weather Service issues them.

Adding Nixle to our other means of communication will allow communications to go to more people directly and quicker and we hope that all residents who have the ability to subscribe to this free service will do so as we strive to work together in partnership with residents to improve the quality of living within Grant County. Please note that for those choosing to receive messages via SMS text standard text messaging rates do apply and you should check with your carrier.

Do you travel? Have to commute to work? Visit another town for shopping? Want to know what is going on in another area? After you confirm, you can reply with up to five (5) other zip codes that you might want to receive alerts.

Residents of Grant County can immediately begin receiving pertinent information via text message, email, and web by registering either in one of the three following ways:

We encourage you to share this information with friends and neighbors to spread the word!

About Nixle

Nixle is a community information service provider built exclusively to provide secure and reliable communications. It is the first authenticated and secure service that connects municipal agencies and community organizations to residents in real-time, delivering information to geographically targeted consumers over their cell phones (via text messages), through e-mails, and via Web access. Nixle has secured a partnership with Nlets (the International Justice and Public Safety Network), allowing local police departments nationwide to send immediate alerts and advisories.

To learn more about the Nixle Alert system, please check out their website at Nixle.com as well as the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) located at the bottom of this page.

The following are images of what text messages, emails, and web notifications alerts look like:

Text Message Received

Because text messages must be kept short, a link will be included in the text message directing you to the web portion of the message, if you are using a smartphone, which will go into greater detail on the situation. Also, you can view any current message issued by going to Nixle.com, and in the box that says "Enter your zip code to see what's happening where you live" enter your zip code. You will then be able to click on and view any active message from Grant County Emergency Management.

Email Message Received

Web Alerts

DISCLAIMER:

Nixle is not intended to replace emergency warning systems. Nixle is an internet-based platform therefore messages may be delayed in times of loss of connectivity.

Nixle and its services are not affiliated with the Grant County EMA in any way. The Grant County EMA, its officers, agents, employees, and contractors: (a) Do not guarantee that any particular message or type of message will be sent or that you will receive every message. (b) Are not responsible for lost or misdirected messages, changed email addresses or phone numbers, the function of your computer equipment, phone, or software, or messages that fail to be transmitted or received due to problems with servers or transmission (e.g., cable, telephone, satellite, etc.) or human error. (c) DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)