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hfxALERT is the municipality’s mass notification system for informing residents about emergencies and operations updates.
hfxALERT will send urgent and non-urgent notifications from Halifax Regional Police, Halifax Fire & Emergency’s Emergency Management Division, as well as municipal winter parking ban notices.
DISCLAIMER: Residents should sign-up for notifications via the website. The municipality’s current service provider, Everbridge, offers users a mobile app. You are not required to download the app to receive hfxALERT notifications. As with all third party apps it is the user’s responsibility to review the app’s Privacy Notice and Terms of Use.
You must sign up with hfxALERT to receive certain notifications. This will ensure the municipality can reach you to share important information quickly based on set locations, such as your home or workplace.
NOTE: If signing up on a mobile device, click “Cancel” when prompted by the pop-up window to continue signing up without downloading the mobile app. You are not required to download the app to receive hfxALERT notifications.
Click here to download the mobile app
With the Everbridge App, notifications will be sent to you based on your immediate location. For this to work, your location services must be turned on. However, you will not necessarily receive any courtesy notification or urgent public safety locations outside of your immediate location. For example, if you are away from your home, and have not signed up online, you may not receive a notification about an incident near your home.
You are not required to download the app to receive hfxALERT notifications.
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