Currently the system can be activated by local emergency officials, the National Weather Service for severe weather events, the CHP for AMBER alerts, and the President of the United States for times of national crisis. WEA is part of a nationwide system that not only allows local officials to provide emergency alerts, but also enables certain state and federal officials the ability to activate the system. Wireless Emergency Alerts are one of the public alert and notification systems that San Luis Obispo County officials can use to alert the public of an emergency.
The alerts include a unique sound and vibration. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) are emergency alert messages like text messages that are sent to WEA-enabled cell phones in the vicinity of an emergency that requires the public to act.
#CAL FIRE PHONE NUMBER REGISTRATION#
If you are unable to complete the online registration via the Sheriff’s Office, you may print and fill out a hard copy of the form here and return it to our office. If you have a Voice over IP (VoIP) or cellular telephone that you would like to be notified on, you must self-register those telephone numbers the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. This system utilizes the 9-1-1 telephone database and therefore can contact listed and unlisted land line telephones. Although the system is used primarily for disasters which require the public to act, it may be used in other emergency such as high-risk missing persons. The Reverse 911 system is managed by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office and can be used county wide. Emergency officials can notify residents and businesses in a designated area of an emergency and actions they may need to take. San Luis Obispo County officials are able to inform the public of an emergency by utilizing an emergency telephone notification system, known as Reverse 911. The ECC dispatches over 20,000 incidents annually for CAL FIRE and seven other agencies. A Battalion Chief supervises six fire captains, eight communications operators, and two Information Technology employees. The Emergency Command Center (ECC) located at CAL FIRE Headquarters is directly linked to field operations.
The purpose of the ECC is to receive reports of emergencies from a variety of sources, allocate resources based on pre-planned response criteria, coordinate interagency incident activities, support the incident as needed, provide internal/external information, and document the activity. The San Luis Obispo ECC is part of CAL FIRE’s three-level command and control structure utilized for the day-to-day operations of the department and for dealing with emergency incidents. It is one of the largest regional fire service organizations in California and is dedicated to Integrated, Cooperative, Regional Fire Protection, and Emergency Services. The CAL FIRE/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department’s Emergency Command Center (ECC) is located at the CAL FIRE/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department Administrative Headquarters in the City of San Luis Obispo.
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