You never know when an emergency might strike. It could be a fast-moving storm, an active shooter incident, a missing person alert or some other type of man-made or natural disaster.
That’s why Hamilton County’s Office of Emergency Management (HCOEM) Public Relations Manager Amy Maxwell, urges residents to register for their emergency notification system called REGROUP.
Maxwell said the county used to have a notification system which wasn’t too successful. “I think because a lot of it had to do with the fact that we hadn’t seen the severe weather that we then saw in 2010 and 2011 with the tornadoes,” she said. “Then we saw more in 2020.”
She said because of the increase in severe weather the county switched to a system called IPAWS…