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SUFFOLK COUNTY OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK / EDWARD P. ROMAINE, COUNTY EXECUTIVE

EMERGENCY NOTIFICATIONS FROM THE SUFFOLK COUNTY SUFFOLKALERT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

Click Here to Sign up to Receive Emergency Notifications from the Suffolk County SuffolkAlert Notification System.

SuffolkAlert is the official emergency notification system used by the Suffolk County Emergency Managers and Public Safety Officials to communicate with community residents during emergencies. Sign up now to receive free alerts from the SuffolkAlert via text message, email, and/or voice message.

  • Add your address to receive geo-targeted alerts
  • Indicate what types of alerts you want to receive including weather, traffic, emergency, and more.
  • Indicate how you want to be notified by text, email, and/or voice message.

Sign up to receive emergency notifications here.

Need to update your emergency notification preferences? Click here to log in to your account.

Frequently Asked Questions

SuffolkAlert is Suffolk County’s official emergency alert and notification system. This system is used to send alerts to the public during emergencies. SuffolkAlert is a free service that allows you to sign up online to receive customized alerts via text message, email, and voice message.

In addition to emergency alerts, you can also choose to receive customizable community notifications. These include may include notifications about severe weather, safety, health, utility disruptions, major traffic incidents, and more. This service is provided by the Suffolk County Department of Fire Rescue and Emergency Services at no cost to the public; however, message and data rates may apply.

When emergencies happen, be the first to know. The Emergency Management and Public Safety Officials within Suffolk County use SuffolkAlert to send official, real-time alerts to the public with information about potentially life-saving actions they may need to take to keep themselves and their families safe. By signing up for SuffolkAlert, you are taking a large step toward improving your personal safety.

When an emergency occurs that meets the criteria for sending out an alert to the public, the Suffolk County Department of Fire Rescue and Emergency Services emergency dispatchers will gather the necessary information and push out an alert to the affected area. Alerts can be sent out county-wide to everyone who has opted-in to the system, or to a specific area or neighborhood for more localized events.

This service is provided by the Suffolk County Department of Fire Rescue and Emergency Services at no cost to the public; however, message and data rates may apply depending on your provider and phone services.

While SuffolkAlert is an excellent system, we cannot guarantee that you will receive notification in all cases. Disasters and emergencies are chaotic and unpredictable, and notification is dependent on external providers such as your wireless carrier or email delivery service outside the Suffolk County’s control. SuffolkAlert will use several means of communications to try to ensure that should any one communications method, technology, or delivery option be unavailable to reach residents, other methods will be used to improve the likelihood that citizens will see the message.
Signing up

Signing up for SuffolkAlert is easy! Go to https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/reg.action?pa=NotifySuffolk and register your contact information.

SuffolkAlert is available to anyone who lives, works, travels through, or visits the Suffolk County. The address can be your home location, work location, or any other location you care about.

You can visit your local library to sign up online for SuffolkAlert. Those who do not have computer access are also welcome to attend one of the many scheduled opt-in appointment with Suffolk OEM by calling 631.852.4900
Alerts

Emergency alerts are sent 24/7 when there is an immediate threat to life and/or property. In addition to emergency alerts, you can also choose to receive customizable community notifications. These include notifications about:
  • Severe
  • Safety risks
  • Health risks
  • Transportation disruption
  • Special event information
  • Test messages

You are not able to reply to texts or emails sent by SuffolkAlert. Voice messages provide a dial-back number to replay an alert message.

Follow the below steps to change your SuffolkAlert preferences (for example, to reduce the number of messages of a certain type, or to change the contacts used for each kind of message):
  1. Go to the login page https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/reg.action?pa=NotifySuffolk for SuffolkAlert
  2. Login using your SuffolkAlert username and password (If you’ve forgotten these, follow the instructions on the page under "Forgot Username or Password?")
  3. Once signed in, click the "Preferences" tab at the top
  4. Under "Notification Preferences", you can make changes to both the phone numbers and email addresses on which you want to receive SuffolkAlert messages by clicking or unclicking the checkboxes
  5. You can also choose what alerts you want to receive and the method you wish to receive them by (text, voice, email)
    • For example, if you wish to turn off all messages regarding Transportation Disruptions, simply uncheck the box to the left of "Transportation Disruption"
    • If you wish instead only to receive emails for Transportation Disruption notifications, instead uncheck the "Text" and / or "Voice" choices, so that only “Email” remains checked

The frequency for which you receive alerts depends on the addresses you provide and the types of alerts you select to receive as well as the frequency of actual emergencies. Emergency alerts will only be sent when there is an immediate threat to life and/or property. Community notifications will be sent when the criteria for sending an alert are met.

This system is not intended to bombard you with information. The County will only send you alerts about the information you select to receive. To change your alert settings, login to https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/reg.action?pa=NotifySuffolk and edit your preferences.

If a call completes and is sent to your answering machine or voice mail system, a message is left. If a phone call is not answered or busy, the system redials your number several times.
Privacy and Contact Information

No, your information is private and will not be used or distributed in any manner. The information that you provide is exempt from public disclosure and will be used for emergency purposes only.

Personal information provided to SuffolkAlert is private and only used to notify you for official Suffolk County communications and to support the Suffolk County’s emergency services.

Your information is not used for marketing purposes and will not be sold to telemarketers or data-mining organizations. A variety of "opt-in" mechanisms are available to ensure you are getting just the messages you want to receive, delivered via the devices and communications modes that you choose.

SuffolkAlert utilizes the highest standards in physical and computer security technologies and conducts regular audits to ensure all information is kept secure. Privacy policies are also outlined in the Terms and Conditions you review when you sign up to receive SuffolkAlert notifications.

Office of Emergency Management

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The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) coordinates the county's response to natural or man made disasters. OEM personnel are rsponsible for the operations of the county's Emergency Operation Center (EOC) and work with local, state, and federal officials in shelter management, planning, resource management, and radiological response coordination.

Contact Information

Patrick M. Beckley

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Joseph Trzepizur

DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

102 East Ave.

Yaphank NY 11980