 In hopes of better assisting its residents, Pike County will be implementing a new form of Mass Emergency Notification. Emergency Management Director Doug Tackett tells us more. I think it's a very important thing because it gives you advanced warnings. It can mean the difference between life and death. Pike County will be implementing a new form of Mass Emergency Notification known as Rave 9-1-1. Tuesday, Mountaintops spoke with Emergency Management Director Doug Tackett about the new service and how it could save your life in a time of need. The Rave system is a mass notification system that we use to alert people to weather, severe weather events and things like that. You can go in and sign up to create yourself an account and get our severe weather alerts that are issued by the National Weather Service and they come out of this system automatically and they just target the area that is warned by the weather service like you see them put a place on a map, a box. It warns just inside that box and doesn't get the whole county, just that area needs to be warned. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute, we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting-edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. With the new service, residents will receive notifications from the National Weather Service for severe weather and receive notifications for local disasters. In conjunction with the notification system, Tackett also says you can enter information so that EMS can better assist you. We also have the RAFE system set up to where you can go in and sign up for these alerts but at the same time, it allows you to enter medical information. If you've got somebody that's bed-fast in the home, somebody that's on oxygen and stuff like that, you can enter all this information and if we have a disaster ongoing in that area, we can see who might need what. So it helps us better prepare for a response and be able to help people more faster and more efficiently. To download the RAFE 9-1-1 notification system, you can visit both the Apple and Google Play stores for download or visit smart 9-1-1 dot com. Reporting from Pike County, for Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Horgell.