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Amherst County Alert System


Alert Amherst is the public notification system used by Amherst County to alert residents, businesses, schools and others of impending weather situations or other public safety issues.

Alerts can be received across all your normal communications devices and platforms:

  • Home, Cell & Business Phones
  • Email
  • Hearing-Impaired Receiving Devices
  • Push Notifications
  • SMS
  • Text Messages

About Everbridge

Everbridge provides a unified critical communication suite that helps clients be better prepared, make better decisions, and respond quickly and confidently during disruptive events. When an incident happens, whether it’s a natural disaster or an IT service outage, we automate communications to ensure that the right messages get to the right people at the right time. Widely recognized by analysts as the market leader, Everbridge solutions are trusted by clients in all major industries and government sectors to connect with over 50 million people around the world. For more information about Everbridge, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, http://www.everbridge.com/blog, and follow on Twitter and Facebook.


RESIDENT ALERT SIGN-UP INSTRUCTIONS – OPT-IN


Click on the “Sign Up” button below, to add your information to this notification system.

You will be asked to create an account:

  • Create a Username and Password
  • Usernames must be a minimum of 4 acceptable characters. Acceptable characters are: uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, period, dash (-), underscore (_), and at symbol (@). No other characters or symbols are permitted at this time.
  • Password must be 8 to 64 characters long and contain at least one letter and one number. Special characters are permitted, but limited to !@#$%^&*(). Select a security question and enter its answer
  • Enter a Registration Email Address. This address is used to send temporary passwords, if you forget your credentials.
  • Accept the Terms of Use by checking the box
  • Click “Create Your Account"

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