EGUSD Emergency Auto Dialer Test Call

[Matthew]

Parents should have received a flyer with the following information:

We would like to share with you that the Elk Grove Unified School District has a new emergency automated telephone system. The system has the ability to call all student telephone numbers and all employee home telephone numbers in the case of a major emergency.

We will be testing this system on the morning of Wednesday, September 3. The test call will go out to all students’ home telephone numbers and emergency contact telephone numbers. The message will state:

“This is a test of the Elk Grove Unified School District’s Emergency Auto Dialer system. This is only a test. The Emergency Auto Dialer is an automated telephone system that will be used to inform parents about major emergencies at Elk Grove Unified schools. Had this been a real emergency you would have received important information. You are receiving this message because your phone number is listed as a parent or guardian or as an emergency contact for a student in our school district. If you have any questions, please call 686-7732.”

[hautemomma]

Originally Posted by Matthew

Parents should have received a flyer with the following information:

We would like to share with you that the Elk Grove Unified School District has a new emergency automated telephone system. The system has the ability to call all student telephone numbers and all employee home telephone numbers in the case of a major emergency.

We will be testing this system on the morning of Wednesday, September 3. The test call will go out to all students’ home telephone numbers and emergency contact telephone numbers. The message will state:

“This is a test of the Elk Grove Unified School District’s Emergency Auto Dialer system. This is only a test. The Emergency Auto Dialer is an automated telephone system that will be used to inform parents about major emergencies at Elk Grove Unified schools. Had this been a real emergency you would have received important information. You are receiving this message because your phone number is listed as a parent or guardian or as an emergency contact for a student in our school district. If you have any questions, please call 686-7732.”

Can you specify which number you would like called in a major emergency, besides the home number? (I'm just the peanut gallery- I'm sure anyone who actually filled out the CRES enrollment card knows the answer to this)

[Matthew]

Originally Posted by hautemomma

Can you specify which number you would like called in a major emergency, besides the home number? (I'm just the peanut gallery- I'm sure anyone who actually filled out the CRES enrollment card knows the answer to this)

The system will dial all the numbers on your emergency card. So if you have both your home and cell listed you will get a test call on both.

[Mr.Smith]

I got my call a few minutes ago on my cell. I'll check the answering machine when I get home today. Great addition, "just in case"

[Matthew]

Originally Posted by Mr.Smith

I got my call a few minutes ago on my cell.

Me too. Mine came from a 417 area code.

[acomet]

They just called me at work. Hopefully all the schools will start doing the same thing.

[Birdieman]

Originally Posted by Matthew

Me too. Mine came from a 417 area code.

So did mine, how weird. I wonder where that area code is from?

[Matthew]

Originally Posted by birdieman

so did mine, how weird. I wonder where that area code is from?

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[Martha]

Posted this on dotcom already, but the auto-dialer called me at work, my mobile, and left a vm on the home phone.

Only trouble with it, like all automated calls is that it doesn't respond immediately when I picked up and said, "hello?" Took a pause, then a second "hello?" which is about the time I usually hang up. The fact that I didn't recognize the number (417 area code, and nothing came up in the caller i.d. that it was EGUSD) could have caused me to not answer the call. ::shrug:: hopefully we'll never need it, but it's good to know that it works (and that any calls coming from 417 need to be listened to!)