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Welcome to the Mangrove Alerts Community System ("MACS")
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This photograph was taken in the early stages of the Peats Ridge fire, early in the afternoon of Saturday, 7 February 2009. |
The response to MACS has exceeded expectations. Our thanks to those who have already subscribed for your encouraging support.
Our thanks also to the Central Coast Plateau Chamber of Commerce and the Mangrove Mountain RSL Sub-Branch for financial support.
The aim of the MACS is to provide a communication system to alert members of the community in the Mangrove Mountain area and surrounding localities quickly to incidents that may affect them, such as local bushfire activity and severe thunderstorms.
For a definition of 'severe thunderstorms', please refer to this page on the Bureau of Meteorology's website.
An indication of what we mean by the 'Mangrove Mountain area' is shown here. As you can see, it covers a large part of the hinterland of the Central Coast. Because the system is geospatial and based on location, MACS can be readily extended to cover surrounding areas, depending on interest.
Messages are sent by:
Email
SMS to mobile phones
Text-to-Voice to landline phones
In addition, MACS subscribers are encouraged to provide information that they believe may be helpful and, if distributed to members, this information will be marked “Informal”. If considered appropriate, the information will be passed on to the relevant authority.
MACS is provided by volunteers and there is no guarantee, implied or otherwise, that the information is correct or will always be available. Subscribers should make their own assessment and seek information from other sources. In general, however, the intention is to provide an alert that there may be incidents that should be monitored, and provide progress updates.
In your own interests, we urge you to subscribe to this new community service.
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