Now is the time to take a few minutes to make sure your phone numbers are in North Wildwood’s Code Red Emergency Notification System.   In times of emergencies the various City Emergency Services (Police, Fire and OEM) use the system to notify resident and visitors alike of important information.     While the Code Red System is updated regularly with phone number changes from Verizon and Comcast you shouldn’t take it for granted that you are listed.   It is easy to add yourself to the list by simply going to https://public.coderedweb.com/cne/en-US/BF7A59567C58 (the link is on the right hand column of Ready.Northwildwood.com) and signing up.  As the system is geo based you will have to have an address in North Wildwood to sign up.    When you sign up you can create a logon so you can come back and update your information – you can add as many phone numbers you want – add your cell phones to get text messages, and add your email to get email messages.     A seasonal resident with a logon can go return to the website and add your cell number when you arrive here and delete your cell number when you go back home.    The Code Red Emergency Notification System is part of the trio of systems that are in place to notify the public of an emergency – the other two being 1640AM and the Emergency Warning Sirens and they are explained briefly below.

1640AM when not used for emergencies plays a continuous loop of city and tourism messages – Messages are updated weekly during the summer season and contain a welcome message, city government information and contact numbers, and what’s happening in the city.     Wonder who is playing this week at the amphitheater – tune to 1640AM to find out.

Emergency warning sirens – there are four distinct patterns that are used to notify the public they are:

  • Structure Fire / Water Rescue – 15 seconds ON 15 second OFF (repeats FOUR times)
  • Flood – 30 second ON 120 Seconds OFF (repeats THREE times)
  • Evacuation – 6 second ON 6 second OFF (repeats continuously for FIVE Minutes)
  • Tornado Warning or Shelter in Place – 300 second ON (sounds continuously for FIVE Minutes)

For the Flood warning those in the flood prone areas will receive a Code Red message,  for the Evacuation, Tornado Warning/Shelter in Place warnings a City Wide Code Red Message will be sent with further information if necessary on 1640AM.    The Structure Fire / Water Rescue sirens are to alert the volunteer fire company members.   The Sirens also have the capability to remotely sound a single test of 6 seconds On.