Emergency Notification Icon

Hello Everyone

This suggestion is for an Emergency Notification Icon that is basically perhaps clear when status normal and bright red (and maybe flashing) when the Emergency Notification is active. This notification would be active under a variety of user-defined possibilities. Some of them would be a severe weather alert, an important news alert (by subject), an emergency call-out by some emergency agency (i.e. police, fire, ambulance, military reserves, search and rescue team, doctors' hospital call etc.).

This icon can be triggered by either an email account reserved only for the user to receive an emergency notification or by an instant messenger notification or by an emergency posting on a website.

Yes we realise most emergency personnel will have a cell phone or pager but there are many who would like to have the notification flash on their screens all the same perhaps due to a severe weather notification or an Amber Alert.

Any further ideas about this?

Here is The Emergency Email and Wireless Network. Here is the Community Alert Network for some ideas. For the serious reader this page has many links as well.