Alert SA

Alert SA Free App

Rated 3.96/5 (295) —  Free Android application by SA Fire & Emergency Services Commission

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About Alert SA

Alert SA Mobile App is the official South Australian Government App for access to real-time, relevant and personalised event and warning information.

The Alert SA App sources official data from a wide range of emergency service Agencies, Government and Community Partners. These include (but not limited) to the following sources:

• South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS)
• Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS)
• State Emergency Service (SES)
• SA Police
• SA Health
• Department for Education and Child Development (DECD)
• Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA)
• Department of Transport Planning and Infrastructure (DPTI)
• Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR)
• Bureau of Meteorology (The Bureau)
• Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
• SA Power Networks

The Alert SA App uses the information obtained from these sources to provide event summaries and warnings to keep you up to date and help you make informed decisions about your safety.

The Alert SA App aims to provide you with the most comprehensive view of event and warning information in South Australia. Further data sources may be added to the app as they become available.

Key Features:

Easy to use interface:
• Display real time events and warnings within South Australia on a Map or in a list.
• Select icon to view detailed information about the event/warning
• Personalise your view with map and list filters

Receive Notifications:
• Set a ‘Watch Zone’ to receive notifications directly to your phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week about events and warnings in your area of interest (e.g. home / office)
• Create variable shaped Watch Zones – once registered on www.alert.sa.gov.au, you can pair your device and draw any shape to define your Watch Zone and customise notification settings
• ‘Follow’ events / warnings of interest outside of your watch zone(s) to receive status updates
• Enable ‘proximity alerting’ so you can receive alerts around you when you are on the move in South Australia

Share event / warning info with others:
• Easily ‘share’ event and warning information with others via sms, email and social media

Map Data Layers:
• Customise your map view with data layers including (but not limited to): rain radar, thunderstorm tracker, cyclone impact projections, Fire perimeters, warning areas, hospital locations, places of last resort.

It is advisable to have access to multiple sources of information and to not rely on a single source of information. Your safety is your responsibility.

* Your device must have an internet connection to receive events and warning information.
** To view your current location and utilise proximity alerts, location functionality must be enabled.
*** Map symbols represent the origin of the event or warning, not its current location or spread.

Please refer to the full Terms & Conditions and Disclaimer within the app for further information. You can view the FAQs at www.alert.sa.gov.au/helpmobile or email the Alert SA team at AlertSA.@sa.gov.au if you need further assistance.

The Alert SA app is managed by The South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM).

Further information available at www.alert.sa.gov.au/download

How to Download / Install

Download and install Alert SA version 1.0.6 on your Android device!
Downloaded 10,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: au.gov.alert.sa, download Alert SA.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
- Reduced number of default notifications
- Display of wind speed / direction / temperature (map overlay)
- Automatic alerts for Fire Danger Ratings of severe or above in your watch zone(s) / proximity area
- Automatic alerts for Total Fire Bans in your watch zone(s) / proximity area
- Various bug fixes and enhancements
Version update Alert SA was updated to version 1.0.6
Version update Alert SA was updated to version 1.0.4
More downloads  Alert SA reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads

What are users saying about Alert SA

Q70%
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Good app. Has been very helpful at times. There is a bit of room for improvement but this will happen in time. Obviously only alerts events that go through the proper channels. Have hit a couple incidents that didn't come up. Keep developing and improving data throughput this has so much more potential.

Q70%
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Notifications don't always come through to mobile. App crashes when opening via notification on tablet. Can't rely on it to notify me of events in my bushfire area at home when at work. No alerts for the last week.

Q70%
by Q####:

Its great but i cant find a way to display the wind direction? Also if a warning is cancelled it just disappears even if you are following the incident leaving people wondering what is happening. Would it be possible to show cancelled for a short time?

I70%
by I####:

Why has the beach water quality data stopped showing up? Especially after all the rainfall we would like to know if it's safe to take our families swimming.

Q70%
by Q####:

Unable to set up watch zones, no address I put in is a valid address, which is a pain considering work and home are a fair way apart. - update- cleared data/cache for app and is still as useless for setting up watch zone, not valid/address not found every time.

Q70%
by Q####:

Notifications don't work.... If I receive a notification my phone merely vibrates, plays only a milisecond of notification sound and no notification is left on the screen.. so if I don’t hear my phone vibrate I miss the notification. I emailed them regarding this and received no response. This has been going on for over a year... last summer didn't work either... surely some app developer can work out how to fix this notification problem??? Not the SA Gov though..... :(

Q70%
by Q####:

And no alerts... even 2 hours after. Not a whimper. Not very useful.

Q70%
by Q####:

Brings up the map of my location for watch zone, but when the physical address is typed in says it is not valid. How can it not be valid when it shows where I am on the map? Needs fixing urgently.

Y70%
by Y####:

Maps are pixilated in bright colours but other features ok. Have to view in lists. Not helpful!

Q70%
by Q####:

There needs to be a way to decrease or turnoff the notification sound.Being notified of events every single time and at all hours gets to be annoying.If people get annoyed enough they will just uninstall the app which defeats the purpose.

F70%
by F####:

Running for a few weeks. Still giving me alerts on android in notifications but when I go to see the detail its asking me to log in or pair again. Very frustrating!!

Q70%
by Q####:

Why are my notifications not working AGAIN on my Samsung S5 - very frustrating!

J70%
by J####:

Fine when it's working, only get notifications every now and then. And when we have a fire less than 3ks from home, a notification would be great!!

Q70%
by Q####:

Stopped working for me. UPDATE it's back working now. Re-paired my device and now it's working perfectly fine.

Q70%
by Q####:

Terrible app go to Adelaide Hills Emergency Alert on Facebook much better information.

Q70%
by Q####:

Unable to find my address

Q70%
by Q####:

Cant put in watch zone never updates way out date

Q70%
by Q####:

Poor app....flicks from screen to screen with no control by user to stop it...only way is to close the app

Q70%
by Q####:

disabling vibration on notifications doesnt seem to work properly

Q70%
by Q####:

Good when it works, notifications stop working for no apparent reason.

Q70%
by Q####:

Easy to use

Q70%
by Q####:

Now my tablet tells me the app is draining power and i should close it saying it has crashed 10 times this week. Very poor performance. It must work better than this to be usable.

A70%
by A####:

Bring back the CFS app it was 100% better than this rubbish the only alerts I get are fire ban days. I set up a 25k radius yet didn't get notification of a truck accident 12k away that closed roads. This is the worst thing that ever happened in SA. I would give it a Minus 5 stars if I could. Get your act together and bring back the informative CFS app.

Q70%
by Q####:

Find this app very beneficial . l have been alerted twice due to flooding risks. You get to know alternative routes if you need to leave the town you're in. This app is a must.

V70%
by V####:

This app is cool except i noticed im not receiving any notifications! Have uninstalled and reinstalled - hoping this helps?? It helped for a couple of days but again not receiving any notifications whatsoever even though on the website it shows I have received these alerts. Would be great if it worked!

E70%
by E####:

Notifications to mobile. Samsung Galaxy S5 have stopped working. I have tried repairing and reinstalling with no luck.

Q70%
by Q####:

Massive improvements incorporated with the latest release.

N70%
by N####:

Use to use this app in partnership with the CFS app. The CFS app was better in a few ways and thats why i used both. I find the notification setting on Alert SA too broad and get notifications im not always interested in order to get ones that i do want. The CFS app also had the advantage of showing the street name within the push notication so i knew straight away if i needed to go in to the app for more details. Ive never seen fire zones or the fire danger shown on the Alert SA map.

Z70%
by Z####:

Just got notification the cfs app is closing and we now have to rely on this app... you may as well kiss goodbye notifying people at risk from bush fire and putting lives at risk. THE WORST app ever. Never works and always crashes... ALWAYS. Congratulations SA government on another job well done. What a joke- stop the app that actually works and replace it with something that doesn't. ... bravo

Q70%
by Q####:

Works beautifully, would love to see more details about incidents though. Highly recommend.

Q70%
by Q####:

I have used once but since then it has stopped working, very disappointed

Q70%
by Q####:

Nothing on screen for weeks....was useful at one time, but nothing anymore!!!!waste of space......

Q70%
by Q####:

Pity it is not always working - don't now what the problem is.

Q70%
by Q####:

Stops constantly.

B70%
by B####:

Liked it but notifacations stopped working on my galaxy s7

Z70%
by Z####:

Since last two updates,can no longer open app

Z70%
by Z####:

Notification zones seem to disappear, so I thought I'd set up an account, which can't be done from a mobile device... Catch 22

Z70%
by Z####:

The App is great, I have it set up to get notifications for home as well as for where my parents live and my son lives. BUT, when I try to open the App from the notification, I get an error message saying the app has stopped working. I have used the report function twice now and the problem is unresolved. I can still open the app from the shortcut and click through to my watch area notifications, but it is frustrating when I just want to see quickly whether it's something to be concerned about or not. Samsung tablet 10.1 2014 edition.

Z70%
by Z####:

The area finction when picked does not work as I wanted a particular area and get notifications of fire acidents that have no relevance to where I live. Sometimes I dont get all the notifications in the area that my friends get....

Z70%
by Z####:

Runs great on my Samsung tablet. But not on my Samsung S5 phone. On my phone im having to uninstall the app and then reinstall it about once a week. It just stops sending out notification.


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