LAFD 'Breaking News' Alerts Debut
Did you ever wonder how news reporters always have the latest scoop about emergencies in Los Angeles? How do helicopter news crews and press photographers end up in the right place at the right time?
Wonder no more.
The Los Angeles Fire Department is pleased to report that LAFD ALERT and LAFD Twitter are out of beta!
LAFD ALERT and LAFD Twitter are free services that provide you with incident information at the same time we provide it to the news media. Now, you can know exactly when to turn on the TV or radio for more information about breaking news of interest to you.
It's enlightening - and it's free.
As a regular reader of after-action reports on the LAFD News & Information blog, you've probably desired earlier details about significant incidents. LAFD ALERT and LAFD Twitter offer just that.
Get breaking Los Angeles Fire Department news your way...
...via e-mail: http://lafd.org/alert
...via SMS (cell phone) text message: http://lafd.org/twitter
Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
4 comments:
Some LAFD CERT members have been using twitter for a while now, it works great! Thank you for all that you do.
-Robert M.
LAFD Battalion 5 CERT Coordinator
This is excellent, thank you for providing it!
I see that you're putting a reminder in the feed, but if you want to save yourself about an order of magnitude of pickups and drops, you might want to remind people that the current wildfire situation is in County's jurisdiction *in this entry*, as well.
Great idea, though... :-)
just wanted to let you know I blogged about this at http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/21/power-of-a-network/
Please contact me if you would like me to correct or clarify anything.
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