It's Alive...

As of December 17, 2005 First Siren, Inc. (www.firstsireninc.com) is open for business. Who, you may ask, is First Siren, Inc.? Well, we are a small start-up company offering a public communication tool to law enforcement agencies. We call this web-based tool, funnily enough, FirstSiren.

Say what? Ok, so instead of trying to describe it, I'll explain it.

Say something happens in your community and the local law enforcement officers would like to keep you informed of it. Take for instance; there is a water main break on Main Street. Well, as you know, that would mean that Main Street would have to be closed to traffic. But how do the agencies get this news out to the public? Simple, that's where FirstSiren comes in. A dispatcher sends an alert - it's that simple.

But how do the citizens get this alert? All they do is register at www.firstsiren.com and choose which types of alerts they want to receive, how they would like to receive them and from which agencies . Then every time the agencies they signed up for send an alert, they get an email, or text message on their phone, or an alert pops up on their desktop.