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How to receive emergency text alerts via Lert Info

> From the WeatherWatch archives

Now you can be one of the first to know when something happens that could affect you directly. Civil Defence Alerts, weather warnings, tsunamis alerts, earthquakes, health warnings, highway closures etc.

More than ten emergency alert types now come to your phone from a single source, automatically, via Lert Info. This is the only service of its kind in the country.

Lert will send emergency txt alerts to all parts of New Zealand. Register now, and you will immediately be able to get alerts relevant to you.  Now you can be informed much sooner, and because they only send alerts based on your chosen location, you’ll know it will matter.

Lert fully support WeatherWatch.co.nz and have been great at getting urgent messages out to the public on our behalf.

To sign up and for more info please visit their website here: www.lert.info

Comments

Before you add a new comment, take note this story was published on 21 Jan 2014.

Zelda Wynn on 20/01/2014 11:37pm

Great service if people have 3g or 4g phones. Ah well just have to rely on my perceptions!

Lert Info on 20/01/2014 11:46pm

Hi Zelda

 

Every cell phone can use our service as we have the txt messages. Any emails would go to your computer.

 

Regards

 

Stuart

Zelda Wynn on 21/01/2014 2:30am

Thanks for that Stuart!

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