From LAVA to LANE, Residents and Visitors of Hawaii Benefit from Everbridge Critical Alerts
Summary
Prior to Hurricane Lane, Hawaii was faced with another natural disaster – the eruption of the Kilauea volcano, which opened cracks on the Island and spewed lava and toxic gas into the air.As Hawaii took action to keep people on the island informed, thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean firefighters in California were battling the Ferguson and Mendocino-Complex fires were also relying on Everbridge to keep residents safe.The Everbridge Customer Success team has also released the following critical event management and emergency messaging recommendations, guidelines and tips that organizations should incorporate into their hurricane readiness and preparedness plans:During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 4,000 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans.The company’s platform sent over 2 billion messages in 2017 and offers the ability to reach over 500 million people in more than 200 countries and territories, including the entire mobile populations on a country-wide scale in Sweden, the Netherlands, the Bahamas, Singapore, Greece, Cambodia, and a number of the largest states in India.