Kudos to the City of Rancho Santa Margarita for Emergency Notification System

Kudos to the City of Rancho Santa Margarita for Emergency Notification System



OCTOBER 25, 2007

As the Santiago Fire are being subdued, there is a sense of relief in an around the City of Rancho Santa Margarita. City officials deserve a lot of credit for the calm because of their proactive use of a reverse 911 system – rather than waiting for residents to call and ask for status, these officials have been regularly calling residents around the city’s sphere of influence with recorded messages. The residents then decide whether they want to hear the updated status.

Meanwhile the Santiago Fire has been declared a case of arson and a $70,000 reward is being offered for the arrest and conviction of perpetrator(s).

The city of RSM provided very useful fire updates by e-mail to businesses in RSM which we were able to pass on to our employees. They were pro-active which was great. Obviously, RSM and the state of California were not the state of Louisiana . This was not an encore of Katrina; thank God. Could it be that we had local officials and a Governor who knew how to be leaders rather than a bunch of incompetent politicians as was the case in Louisiana that could not manage their way out of a wet paper bag? And, most important, significant disaster planning was already in place to deal with this probability. Go figure. Now we have to do the same disaster planning in Coto because we were lucky this time. Joseph Morabito, former member CZ Master Association board of directors.



2000 Coto de Caza Fires, taken from Torrey Pines in Hillsboro - Photo: CotoBuzz


The History of the reverse 911 system used by RSM during the 2007 Santiago Fires

776 BC - First recorded use of homing pigeons used to send message - the winner of the Olympic Games to the Athenians.

59 BC - Julius Caesar keeps people informed with handwritten sheets

1850 - Paul Julius Reuter spotted the opportunity to speed up news between Brussels and Berlin by using homing pigeons to bridge the gap in the telegraph.

1910 - During WWI: Allied spies used homing pigeons to dispatch messages, pilots would carry them on board in the event they had to send off a hasty SOS and ships could use them to warn of approaching danger.

1994- American government releases control of internet and WWW is born - making communication at light speed.

2006 – The Coto de Caza board of directors unanimously agree to use the post office to process requests from certain homeowners, rather than the use of email

10-2007 – Jerry Mezger resigns post in CZ Master Association board of directors

2007 – RSM Successfully uses a reverse 911 system to keep residents informed of Santiago Fire status.

11-2007 CZ Master Association Newsletter – Mum is the word on status of Mr. Mezger






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