BEMIDJI – The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office will test its new CodeRED emergency-notification system next week.
The test is scheduled for 8 a.m. Tuesday. Each resident that the county has a contact number for will receive a recorded message with instructions on how to sign up additional contact numbers. The message also will go to answering machines.
The message will go out as follows:
“This is the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office 911 Dispatch Center with an important message for all residents and businesses located in Beltrami County.
“We have licensed the CodeRED Community Notification System to help disseminate important or critical information.
“We encourage all residents and businesses to go to the Beltrami County website, click on CodeRED located our website, in the middle of the main page, and enter your contact information, including additional phone numbers, text and email addresses and any TTY/TTD devices (for our deaf and hard of hearing community), to ensure all of the data in our system is accurate and current.
“If you know of anyone who did not receive this call who lives in Beltrami County please encourage them to visit the county’s website at www.co.beltrami.mn.us and enter their information.
“If you do not have Internet access, please contact a friend or family member to help add your contact information to the emergency database. We will be offering assistance in entering your data through Town Hall Meetings. Emergency only questions regarding this program can be directed to 218-333-8320. Thank you.”
More than 20,000 landline numbers have been loaded into the system and the county reports many residents have registered their cell phone and email addresses as well. A cell phone app also is available to download.
Those receiving phone calls will see a caller ID phone number come up with the CODE RED 800 number which allows you to call that number back and hear the message we have recorded.
The county asks, strongly, that residents not call the Dispatch Center or 911 for information.
