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3.10.10 REDWOOD CITY COMMUNITY ALERT SYSTEMS The City is part of a Countywide program that offers emergency alerts to community members. The emergency alert system is called SMC ALERT. The alert/notification system is used to immediately contact subscribers during urgent or emergency situations. 3.10.11 NIXLE NIXLE Connect allows the Redwood City Police Department to communicate with the public via text/SMS, email and Internet posts at no cost. NIXLE is the primary resource for distributing secure information to residents over the department's Web -based platforms. Communications range from emergency alerts to routine day-to-day information, including traffic advisories, missing persons reports, public safety announcements, press releases for high-profile cases, awards and other relevant information to the area. Redwood City residents can sign up to receive free, real-time safety information by texting their zip code to 888777 or by visiting www.nixle.com. Once registered, users can customize the types of alerts they wish to receive via text, email and online. 3.10.12 PENINSULA TELIVISION (PENTV) Peninsula TV is a 501c3 nonprofit community television station and professional video services provider. They are supported by the County of San Mateo, the cities within the County, a number of for-profit enterprises within the County, as well as individual PenTV members. PenTV broadcasts its television signal throughout most of San Mateo County to over 275,000 households on cable networks Comcast -26, Wave -27, and AT&T U -verse -99. They also stream all programming on their website, www.pentv.tv, 24/7/365. While the station's primary mission is to produce, acquire, and broadcast programming that is interesting and of value to the community, they can provide alerts and warnings and detailed instructions from local governments. 3.10.13 SOUTH COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICES (SCARES) The principal mission of the South County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (SCARES) group is to provide emergency communication for the communities of Belmont, Foster City, Menlo Park/Atherton, Redwood City, San Carlos, and San Mateo when called upon. SCARES will also provide communications services to communities served for special events such as parades, foot or bicycle races, etc., whenever appropriate for the purpose of training and enhancement of communications skills of its members. There is an amateur radio station in Redwood City Police Department headquarters which consists of VHF and UHF voice radios and a VHF Packet station (computer to computer via radio modem). An RS -232 serial line connects a computer in the EOC to the packet station. The radio room is adjacent to the lunch room on the second floor [enter lunch room, turn left, go to end of room]. The City SCARES station address is: 1301 Maple St. (east side of 101) 41