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- Emergency Notification
- clearTXT text message/email
- Tone-Alert Radios
- Blastmail Email
- Snow Hotline
- Web Announcements
- Safety & Security
- Health Emergency
- Weather Emergency
- Emergency Scenarios
- Additional Resources
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Emergency Notification
The University of Minnesota Duluth uses a variety of communication systems to inform the campus community about an emergency situation.
clearTXT for Emergency Text Messaging and Email
The University of Minnesota Duluth has established a service to send text messages to cellular telephones (and an email copy) in case of an emergency or weather-related campus closing. For more information or to sign up, see: Emergency text alerts. To ensure you receive these messages, you must sign up and provide information about your cell phone provider. There will be a monthly test of the system sent on the first Wednesday of each month at 1 PM. The service is spam and advertising free. There is no cost to subscribe.
Tone-Alert Radios (TARs)
Each UMD department has a tone-alert radio in the department office. At the onset of any emergency, a voice alert message will be broadcast through Tone Alert Radios (TARs) informing the campus community of the situation. TARs were strategically placed in selected offices throughout campus to ensure maximum coverage. Personnel in these offices are instructed to convey the emergency information immediately to their constituencies. As part UMD's emergency preparedness, a broadcast test message is sent every first Wednesday of the month at 1:00 PM.
Blastmail for Emergency Email
UMD has developed an email system intended to deliver a large number of messages as quickly as possible. This new system, which we call Blastmail, can deliver 12,000 messages in 55 seconds. New mailing lists of all students and all faculty and staff are generated on a regular basis, so that they will be ready to use at a moment's notice.
Snow Hot Line
The UMD Snow and Emergency Hotline can be reached by dialing (218) 726-SNOW (726-7669).
Web Announcements
Weather-related closings and other emergencies will be announced by placing an announcement on the UMD home page and on the Emergency Closings page. In the case of a severe emergency, where we need to reach the maximum number of people immediately, the entire UMD web site will be replaced with a single page for emergency information.