Portland names interim emergency management director
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler names Jonna Papaefthimiou interim director of the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) starting on April 1, 2021.
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Fax: 503-823-3903
TDD: 503-823-3947
Earlier this year, we asked for your feedback to help improve how the City of Portland issues emergency alerts in the rare event of a large-scale evacuation. We ending up hearing from 411 Portlanders through an online survey and two community workshops.
One of several tools we may use during an evacuation is the PublicAlerts system, which can send a message with an urgent safety warning to landline phones, mobile phones and email addresses. The one catch is that although the system already has most landline numbers, you must register your mobile phone and email address at www.publicalerts.org to get the alerts.
The survey and workshops asked how people may respond after being contacted by PublicAlerts. Here’s what we learned from the responses…
Here’s what we plan to do with the results…
And here’s what you can do (if you haven’t already)…