Emergency Call Alert System

The City of Nanaimo has moved to a new Emergency Call Alert System called Voyent Alert! This Mass Notification System allows residents to use an App or sign up online to receive text, email and phone alerts!

If you are registered under the old system, you will need to re-register for the new one.

We are excited to make this switch and provide enhanced features to our residents. Watch the video below to see Mayor Krog and City of Nanaimo Emergency Program Manager, Karen Lindsay install the app on the Mayor's phone!

Voyent Alert! Information

Introducing Voyent Alert!

In times of crisis it is important that residents have access to trusted, timely and accurate information to ensure their own safety and that of their family and loved ones. In response to this need, the City of Nanaimo has chosen Voyent Alert! as the communication service provider for these kinds of events.

Voyent Alert! is a multi-purpose communication service used to send alerts to residents, businesses, and visitors during critical events like fires or floods as well as for relevant day-to-day communications such as snow removal advisories, planned maintenance, water advisories, etc.

How to Register:

Registration for the service is FREE, simple and totally anonymous.

Mobile App Users: Download and install the Voyent Alert! app from the Apple or Google Play app stores.

Email, Phone or SMS Users: Click here to register online to receive email, phone or text-based alerts

What You Can Expect

Personalized Communications: Voyent Alert! provides informative communications. Critical information such as the distance and direction from an incident, time of intercept and preferred evacuation routes from your tracked locations are provided.

Track Multiple Locations: Voyent Alert! allows you to create and track multiple locations such as “Kids School” or “Mom’s House”. Any event or communication related to your tracked locations will be forwarded to you along your preferred communication channel.

No Message Fatigue: Voyent Alert’s smart alerting capabilities ensure that you will only get notified when a communication is relevant to you or one of the locations you are tracking.

Communications Your Way: Receive alerts over a wide variety of communication channels including mobile apps, text/SMS alerting, email or voice calling. You can register for all or one of them.

Privacy is Paramount: Registration is anonymous, and no information volunteered or derived is shared or used for marketing or data harvesting purposes. Locational information from your tracked locations is only used to determine its proximity to an alert event and to provide critical context within the communications (such as distance and direction).

Leaving is Easy: Both mobile applications and web-based accounts provide access to an unsubscribe feature accessed via the menu icon on the top right of the screen/page. If the service isn’t working out simply click on the “Unsubscribe” button and you won’t be hearing from us again.

For more information you can check out the FAQ and the Voyent Alert Privacy Policy.