Please let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Lynn Powelson and I am the newly appointed Coshocton County Emergency Management Director. I took this position after retiring from Cleveland Cliffs Coshocton Works with almost 30 years of service. 4 of those years in production and 25+ years in the safety department. I have also been a member of Three Rivers Fire District for the past 37 years. Since late 1999, I have been the Fire Chief.
One of the things I have noticed in my public safety positions is that early notification for emergencies is key in life safety and property preservation. This includes your home residence along with your place of employment. With that being said, Coshocton County uses the Code Red System for this warning notification. I would like to get as many people as possible signed up for the CodeRed system. The CodeRed System allows you to choose multiple address locations so that you can receive alerts for multiple locations. Please remember, the sooner you are notified, the faster you can react to the situation.
CodeRED is a versatile, web-based, and geo-targeted communication system used by public safety officials to send time-sensitive, emergency, and general alerts to residents and businesses via voice calls, text messages, emails, and social media. It covers emergencies like evacuations, missing persons, HAZMAT incidents, severe weather, boil water notices, and significant traffic disruptions. We have all seen the news with the many disasters happening lately. We owe it to ourselves, our families, and our community to do everything we can to be prepared.
If you are already registered to receive alerts from CodeRed, please log in to your account and make sure everything is up to date and current. We go through address changes and phone number changes, and this has to be updated to continue to receive these alerts. You can also add family members contact information as well.
In closing, I am asking you to please log on to Coshocton County’s Code Red Community Notification Enrollment page, which can be reached by going to https://www.coshoctoncounty.net/. You then click on the Code Red link from that page.
Thank You,
Lynn Powelson – Director
