The City of La Vergne is offering CodeRED to residents

LA VERGNE — The City of La Vergne is offering CodeRED to residents - a high-speed notification system alerting people about severe weather and other emergency events. The messaging system provides notices when severe weather or other emergencies occur at no-charge through telephone, email, or text messaging.

Operated by Emergency Communications Network, CodeRED Weather Warning is an opt-in warning product that taps into the National Weather Service's Storm Based Warnings. CodeRED Weather Warning automatically alerts affected citizens in the path of severe weather moments afterwards a warning has been issued. City officials will as well have the ability to notify the La Vergne community when other emergencies arise.

For citywide emergencies like this, the network is adding La Vergne phone numbers obtained from the white pages, yellow pages, the Rutherford County GIS mapping system, and the Rutherford County Enhanced 911 System. When a call comes in from CodeRED, the caller ID will read Emergency Communications Network or 866-419-5000 or 800-566-9780 will appear.

"We recommend that all businesses register," said Emergency Services Coordinator Rick McCormick. "You should as well call if you have an unlisted phone number, you have changed your phone number or address within the past year, or if you use a cell phone or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone as your primary number."

Those without Internet access may call La Vergne's non-emergency police number at 615-793-7744 for assistance in signing up.