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The City of Quitman, Texas is provided emergency notification services through Wood County by a grant from the East Texas Council of Governments.  This is under contract with Emergency Communications Network, Inc., of Ormond Beach, Florida, for its "CodeRED" high-speed telephone emergency notification services. The CodeRED system gives government officials the ability to deliver pre-recorded emergency telephone notification/information messages to targeted areas at a rate of up to 1,000 calls per minute.   The system can be used in a variety of emergency and operational situations to keep the community safe and informed. 

Mike Hall, City Secretary-Administrator cautioned that such systems are only as good as the telephone database supporting them. "If your phone number is not in the database, you will not be called". The CodeRED system not only offers faster calling rates and improved message delivery, it gives individuals and businesses the ability to add their own phone numbers directly to the system's telephone database. Hall emphasized that this is an extremely important feature.

To ensure no one is omitted, Hall urges all individuals and businesses in the City of Quitman or surrounding fire service area to log onto the City of Quitman’s website, www.quitmantx.org, and follow the link to the "CodeRED Residential and Business Data Collection" page. Those without Internet access may call Quitman City Hall at (903-763-2223), Monday through Friday, (8AM-5PM) to give their information over the phone. Required information includes first and last name, street address (physical address, no P.O. boxes), city, state, zip code, and primary phone number, additional phone numbers.

“Although the initial set-up of the system uses residential listings to build a database of contacts, no one should automatically assume his or her phone number is included,” Hall said. All businesses should register, as well as all individuals who have unlisted phone numbers, who have changed their phone number or address within the last year, and who use a cellular phone as their primary home phone.

Hall explained that the "CodeRED system is a geographical based notification system, which means street addresses are needed to select which phone numbers will receive emergency notification calls in any given situation. The system works fine for cell phones too, but we have to have a street address". People who have recently moved but kept the same listed or unlisted phone number also need to change their address in the database.