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(The Town of Manteo is a partner with Dare County in their mass notification system (Regroup).
Anyone who would like to receive direct notifications from the Town can sign up at townofmanteo.
com/alerts to get the latest information by text, voice call, or email. Courtesy of the Town of Manteo
and YouTube.)
As conditions change, ocean res- to use local weather alerts, warn-
cue personnel can alert beach go- ings and watches using geofence
ers of hazards with the posting of technology.
red No Swimming Flags.
The use of Regroup’s opt-in The integration means messag-
and NWS alert capabilities has es can be automated with less
improved beach safety across chance of human error, and is
the Dare County Outer Banks. easy for administrators to send
thousands of messages on any
Many other local governments device through SMS, text, email
and organizations are empowered and phone calls. (Cont'd on Pg 32)
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