Lower South Fire Department Joins Text Alert System

The Lower Southampton Fire Department started using a new communications service this week that allows officials to send community information directly to residents.

The Nixle Community Information Service helps the department create and publish messages that are delivered to subscribed residents instantly via cell phone text message and/or email. Notifications can also be accessed online at Nixle’s web site at www.nixle.com.

Messages may include events, road closures, or emergency information, as well as other relevant safety and community event information.

"With Nixle the LSFD is expanding its use of technology and capability to notify the public of emergency conditions," officials in the department said in a release statement. "The LSFD already uses technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare to interact with the public in both emergency and non-emergency situations."

The service is secure, reliable and easy to use for subscribers. The messages can be sent specifically to residents registered within a quarter-mile radius, giving them the opportunity to receive information relevant only to their neighborhood.

Residents decide from which local agencies they want to receive information. Subscribers can also choose the way in which alerts are received, whether it is by e-mail, text message, or over the web.

Residents of Lower Southampton and those in neighboring communities can immediately begin receiving pertinent information via text message, email, and web by registering at www.nixle.com.