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Starting Friday, WarnMe, UC Berkeley’s alert and warning service, is being changed so that everyone with an active CalNet directory listing will be included unless they choose not to be.
Tag: emergency preparedness
WarnMe: To receive emergency text messages, add your phone number
September 11, 2012: While WarnMe became opt-out in March, now is a good time to make sure you’ve added your current phone number, if you’d prefer to receive a text message in case of an emergency.
Campus emergency sirens to sound on Thursday
October 20, 2011:
State emergency preparedness officials ask Californians to drop, cover and hold during the annual earthquake preparedness drill at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, Oct 20. Campus emergency sirens will sound.
In case of emergency: Sign up for WarnMe
August 31, 2010:
Amid the hubbub of a new school year, it’s easy to forget that an emergency could strike at any time — an earthquake, a fire, or someone with a gun. But it’s a good time to remember to sign up for WarnMe, Berkeley’s emergency notification system. It’s easy; just go to warnme.berkeley.edu.
Volunteer victims add punch to simulated campus emergency
June 17, 2010:
Members of the Berkeley campus community pitched in to make more realistic Thursday’s campuswide emergency preparedness drill. In preparation for the exercise, experienced injury makeup artists attached pre-made “wounds” to volunteer victims of an (also simulated) earthquake.
Earthquake drill on Thursday will test campus emergency preparedness
June 16, 2010:
UC Berkeley’s annual emergency preparedness drill, Vigilance 2010, will take place Thursday morning, June 17, with more than 700 people on and off campus participating in activities both indoors and outdoors to simulate the aftermath of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake on the Hayward fault.
