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Columbia County urges residents to sign up for HyperReach emergency alerts
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Columbia County officials say about 15,000 contact points are registered for HyperReach — far fewer than the county population — and urged residents to sign up on the county website to receive geolocated emergency and community notifications.
Columbia County officials urged residents to register for HyperReach, the county's emergency-notification system, saying roughly 15,000 contact points are signed up compared with a population of about 170,000.
Bill Botham, Columbia County Emergency Management Agency outreach manager, said the 15,000 figure counts phone numbers and email addresses rather than unique people. "We have somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 signed up, but that is notified numbers or email addresses," Botham said. "If you have registered a landline and a cell phone and an email address, you would count as 3." He added that the number…
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