Genasys PROTECT - Download the app to have access to faster and more accurate disaster, evacuation, and repopulation information throughout San Diego County. 

Key features of the new Genasys PROTECT App include:

• Real-time emergency information: Receive instant pop-up notifications on your phone.
• Customizable zones: Subscribe to specific zones such as your home, business, and family addresses.
• Location-based alerts: Get notified if a threat impacts your current location or saved locations such as home, business, and family addresses.
• Safe return notifications: Receive real-time updates on when it is safe to return home.

Types of information available on the app:

• Evacuation directions and information: Know if you are in an advisory, warning, or evacuation order area, and receive directions to the designated safe location.
• Road closures: Integrates with Waze and Google Maps for evacuation routes.
• Temporary evacuation points and shelters: Locations specific to each incident.
• Large animal shelter locations:  Identified on the maps when available.
• Public safety instructions: Direct guidance from public safety officials per zone.

Alert San Diego

Do you want to be notified of emergencies or disasters?  Then register your cell phone number, Voice over IP (VoIP) phone number, and email address for Alert San Diego.  We will use Alert San Diego to notify you within San Diego County of an emergency or disaster and/or the actions (such as evacuation) you can take to be safe.  NOTE:  Listed and unlisted landline phone numbers are already included in the database, so you do not need to register those phone numbers.  The system uses the region's 9-1-1 database, provided by local telephone companies, to contact landline telephones whether listed or unlisted.  It is TTY/TDD capable.  The system also provides messaging for the deaf, blind, hard of hearing, and deaf/blind before, during, and after a disaster.  If interested, join Alert San Diego now.

Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)

Emergency notifications can also be broadcast to cell phones in a targeted area with no “opt-in” of mobile phones required.  Alerts are provided about the emergency with important, but limited information:

• Emergency location
• What actions residents should take
• How they can find out more information

Emergency Alert System (EAS)

EAS is a national public warning system.  Broadcasters, satellite digital audio service and direct broadcast satellite providers, cable television systems, and wireless cable systems are required to provide a communications capability to address San Diegans within 10 minutes during an emergency.  The primary Emergency Alert System station for San Diego County is radio station KOGO AM 600. The secondary station is KLSD AM 1360.