A new emergency alert system could be coming to Daviess County.
The smartphone app Ping4 would allow emergency officials to send out messages to people in a specific area during outdoor events like concerts or fireworks shows.
Daviess County Deputy Emergency Management Director John Clouse says the alerts could be anything from severe weather to a missing child.
"We have several different festivals and things going on down at Smothers Park and on Second Street," notes Clouse. "This would give us the opportunity should a missing child come up to alert everyone in that area and give a general description of what the child was wearing and where they were last seen."
Any smartphone would receive the alerts without the owner downloading the app.
Clouse says the system was tested last year at the music festival ROMP and went well. He adds the system could be operational in days once the Daviess County Fiscal Court approves a contract with the app manufacturer.
