We are an agency that monitors police, fire, ems, and other emergency communications. When we hear a major incident happening we send a text message via email to the local media and Public Information Officials statewide. Here's how it works:
I hear a call go out on the radio that the media counts on being notified of. I open my email client and write short message to an address that goes to all of our media contacts. If the event is a house fire, I send the email to the "fire" email address, from our agency email account. All media people who's phones and pagers receive messages from the email I sent the message to, will get the alert. There are 5 different emails. One for Fire calls, another for Police and ems calls, one for all calls in northern Arizona, one for only minor incidents, and another for messages only us "dispatchers" can see.
What we need is a simple form that we can put on our website that consists of a text area box (no more than 160 characters preferably), and then a drop down box with all 5 different alert types I mentioned above. The submit button would say "SEND ALERT" and when pressed the typed message would be sent to the address specified in the drop down box.
There are a couple very important things that would be required though. The most important is that the only text delivered is what the author typed in the text area- nothing more. I have used form generators from the web and all seem to send extra crap like the IP address of the sender, or colons, etc
Second thing: The subject of each alert must be APSN ALERT and the replyto or sender must be depicted as news(at)apsn.us
The website is www.apsn.us
I dont have much to pay someone, but dont expect it for free either, Please let me know if you can help us. |
I like the IP address being there, but the media and police personnel do not.
