SD Emergency

Due to the Lilac Fire, this app has exploded in notifications... Unfortunately most are super unhelpful. It would be great if they could limited notifications to only truly emergency info. Here are some of the notifications I've received: "DA warns of price gouging" "Looking for ways to help? Monetary donations recommended" Why are these worthy of the terrifying notification sound? I don't want to turn off notifications in case there is actually helpful info, but they are encouraging me to by having all updates appear equally important by notifying me of all of them. It would also be helpful to be able to change the notification sound to be something other than the smoke alarm chirp that's the default. When you are worried about fires, smoke alarm noises are super stressful. The maps, shelter info, and volunteer info is super helpful. That part is top notch.

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This app may only be good for notifications and even that functionality is questionable. There is a big brush fire very close to my house with evacuations and there is no mention of it. The map simply shows library locations and the preparedness section is fraught with a ton of broken links. The videos have no sound and it crashes often. This app is mostly useless.

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I downloaded this app during the SoCal wildfires to receive updates about the Lilac fire's proximity to my location and other need-to-know alerts. Unfortunately, I now receive dozens of junk push alerts that are not truly emergency alerts. Some recent ones include: -"Cleaning Ash from Property and Pools"; -"Staying Prepared for Continuing High Fire Risk Conditions"; -"What do Do During a Power Outage"; and, -"Looking for a Way to Help? Monetary Donations Recommended." There is no way to select which alerts you receive and it's really ridiculous that I'm receiving these junk alerts- if I really needed to know how to clean ash from my pool, I could certainly Google it. I don't need to be interrupted during work or when I'm sleeping with a fire-alarm sounding tone just for these spam-y notifications. To me, it seems like quite a manipulation of the App and so far gone from the App's supposed intention.

I don’t understand the negative reviews. This app is fantastic. I downloaded it after the fires last year, and yesterday received a text, email, push notification, and phone call of my neighborhood being evacuated (gas pipeline rupture). This app can literally be a life saver.

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Most notices are for issues very far away. Three notices today for fires over 90 minutes from both where I am today and where my home is. Worse, there were no notices for the fire that burned to within a half mile of my home. While I was there. Again, good idea, but very poor execution. Ideally, the app would differentiate between issues that affect me and issues that affect others. And the settings would allow for that. For example, a problem 5 miles away should have a different notice and sense of urgency than a problem more than 50 miles away. Right now, those two issues are treated the same. Until that’s fixed, this will just be another useless County program.