{"id":158229,"date":"2020-02-13T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=158229"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:59:50","slug":"test-emergency-communications-set-tuesday-feb-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/02\/test-emergency-communications-set-tuesday-feb-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Test of Emergency Communications Set For Tuesday, Feb. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut will test its emergency notification and alerting system, UConnALERT, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 12:25 p.m., on all campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The test involves multiple messaging platforms. A notice will be posted on the UConn Alert website (<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Falert.uconn.edu&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cstephanie.reitz%40uconn.edu%7C3b55d91d4640411c274a08d691fe86e1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636856919710662544&amp;sdata=RGr6qawQAgrmPl6tuzxL2HeorcpYGXGbt4DOjJx6BPM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">alert.uconn.edu<\/a>); an email will be sent to all students, faculty, and staff; and posts will appear on the University\u2019s Facebook and Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, cell phone numbers registered with the UConnALERT system will receive text messages. On the Storrs campus only, outdoor sirens will be tested with an audible tone.<\/p>\n<p>This test includes emergency notifications at UConn Health in addition to the Storrs and regional campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone users who have downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.uconn.edu\/myuconn\/\">the University\u2019s official mobile application, <strong>myUConn<\/strong><\/a>, will also receive an alert through the app during the test.<\/p>\n<p>In an actual emergency, information will be updated regularly through the UConn Alert website at <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=alert.uconn.edu&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cstephanie.reitz%40uconn.edu%7C3b55d91d4640411c274a08d691fe86e1%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636856919710682559&amp;sdata=W628yNtGzGuLRUbyAuT9of1CqZE7%2BfOdtmIjNeDbSyk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">alert.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty, and staff should visit this site to register for cell phone text alerts, update their contact information, and obtain information related to emergency procedures and campus safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn will test its methods of communicating in an emergency on Feb. 18, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":113685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,92,174,2225,90,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-158229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-avery-point","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-stamford","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-waterbury","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 19:19:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158234,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158229\/revisions\/158234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/113685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158229"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=158229"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=158229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}