Emergency Alerts; Weather, Tornado, Hurricane, Earthquake, Snow, Flood, Wildfire by American Red Cross
By American Red Cross
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Description
Help keep your family safe in severe weather, man made/natural hazards with Emergency by the American Red Cross. Monitor conditions in your area or area of loved ones, prepare your family and your home, check to see if loved ones are safe and let them know you’re safe. - A must have for anyone who live in areas prone to severe weather or have loved ones that do.
• Free and available in English with a Spanish-language toggle.
• Monitor the people and places you care about with real- time local alerts for severe weather and hazards, including earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, flood, tsunamis, winter storms, thunderstorms, extreme heat, wildfire and many more.
• Family Safe feature - easily connect with loved ones to share alerts for their area and see if they’re safe during
severe weather.
• Customizable alerting and push notification options.
• Interactive quizzes with sharable badges.
• Preloaded preparedness and critical emergency content providing instant access even without mobile connectivity.
• A toolkit with a flashlight, strobe light, and audible alarm.
• Map with open Red Cross shelters and other weather-related layers.
• Step by step directions on how to make a family emergency plan.
APPLE WATCH
As a disaster notification comes in on your Apple Watch, you can initiate Family Safe which notifies loved ones who are in the affected area of the disaster. Loved ones can instantly see the alert details and respond with their safety status (safe/not safe), along with seeing tailored “what to do now” information. If they’re not safe, you instantly know their location and they know what to do to get themselves safe.
What's New in Version 1.3
• Performance & stability improvements
• Adds ability to set monitored location radius to 250 miles
• Fixes bug where some users could not set radius
• Fixes bug where you couldn't scroll down after editing your plan in Make a Plan
• Bottom bar is now hidden when viewing alert details
• Adds loading indicators and better error messaging in Family Safe
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements
Customer Reviews
Not acceptable, and I'm a Red Cross Volunteer!
I have this 1 star so I could leave a review. I'm an American Red Cross Volunteer and I will NOT recommend this app to anyone until it is reliable! I am going to contact our IT department Monday and see where this leads. I have to see this through because people depend upon the Red Cross, I feel awful that you have confided in us and we have let you all down.
I see all it has the ability to do, all that is great! I like the ability to set boundaries, notify family, alert you about your home address or your current location. When it's fixed I will try again. Please accept MY apology as a Red Cross Volunteer, I am sorry for everyone's trouble. Keep watch and give us another try when it's fixed!
Just 2 suggestions
This is an extremely valuable app.
I just have two suggestions...
1) For checking on family, you need more than just a phone #. It should notify any device attached to the family members (i.e., iPad, computer, etc) even if that device has no phone #. So if someone's phone is lost or damaged in an emergency, they could still respond that they are safe via their iPad, etc.
This could be accomplished by linking devices through not just phone #s, but also via email addresses, iCloud, FaceTime, or even partnering with 3rd party apps like Skype, Facebook Messenger, or Twitter.
2) The alerts should have the ability to set a different radius for each type of alert, rather than all alerts for a location having the same radius.
Other than that, it's very good.
Great App!
I love this app, and it's always been very functional! is a must-have and highly needed warning tool (tornadoes are all too common around my area). I definitely recommend this app!
Plus, it alerts me when there are serious weather issues in the various places that my family and friends live.
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- Free
- Category: Weather
- Updated: May 31, 2016
- Version: 1.3
- Size: 83.0 MB
- Apple Watch: Yes
- Language: English
- Seller: American Red Cross
- Copyright © 2015 The American National Red Cross
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.