Updated on March 27, 2025
Emergency Alerts
| Current Local Alerts | Click on the blue button to find quick links to RDN's Voyent Alert! notifications, get flood watch reminders, and view the real-time map of RDN services and emergency alerts issued for this region. You'll also find links to Staying Informed, Communicating During an Emergency, Know the Hazards, Get Prepared, During an Emergency and After an Emergency. |
| RDN Voyent Alert! Notification System | Click on the blue button to learn about RDN Voyent Alert! and follow the step-by-step instructions to register your landline, cell number and email address to receive services and emergency notifications for this region. The page has a handy frequently asked questions section, useful links and explains how Voyent Alert! is used by our neighbouring local governments. |
| Emergency Communications | Knowing how to access the right information, at the right time and from the right sources is critical for your emergency preparedness. It can be your lifeline! This page shares tips and resources on picking out-of-area contacts, the importance of following official and trusted channels, how to prepare your own emergency communications tools, best advice on communicating during an emergency and more. |
| National Public Alerting System |
Click here to be taken to the Government of Canada's web page on the National Public Alerting System, a federal, provincial, and territorial system that enables emergency management organizations across Canada to warn the public about imminent or possible dangers such as floods, tornados, fires, and other disasters. The system is also used for Amber Alerts and other urgent bulletins about child abductions when the child is thought to be in grave danger. You'll find information on Alert Ready, alerts on mobile devices, how national/provincial alerts are sent to your phone, national/provincial alerts on TV and radio, the consistent appearance and sound of alerts and more. |