The City of Laguna Beach utilizes a community alert system which is typically used for emergency notifications, community event information, or traffic issues which are sent by text messages, mobile app, and/or e-mail. While it is typically used for non-emergency reasons, the system will also be used for significant events or emergencies.

General Alerts:

Sign up for Laguna Beach citywide emergency alerts and our Community Newsletters. To subscribe, text 92651 to 888-777.

Traffic Alerts

Alerts about road closures, traffic accidents, and traffic jams in Laguna Beach. To subscribe, text LBTRAFFIC to 888-777.

Business Notifications

Alerts to Laguna Beach business owners about installing floodgates and other business-related alerts. To subscribe, text LBBIZ to 888-777.

Dog Park Notifications

Alerts when the Laguna Canyon Dog Park and Moulton Meadows Dog Play Area close due to wet and muddy conditions. To subscribe, text LBDOGPARK to 888-777.

Red Flag Parking Restrictions Notifications

Alerts when the National Weather Service (NWS) issues a Red Flag Warning and parking restrictions go into effect in specific neighborhoods. To subscribe, text LBREDFLAG to 888-777.

You can also get these alerts on the Nixle Everbridge App, available at the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

AlertOC is Orange County's regional mass notification system designed to keep those who live or work in Orange County information of important information during emergency events. This system is geo-targeted so we have the capability of notify just those areas or neighborhoods which are impacted.

City Public Safety staff have the ability to use this system to notify residents and visitors of critical, timely, and emergency information. Register here for AlertOC.

The City of Laguna Beach has partnered with Genasys Inc. to install an array of speakers and sirens throughout town. These speakers/sirens can be activated to provide emergency alerts and warnings to individuals within the alert areas and provide instructions to the community to take safety actions (i.e. shelter in place, evacuation, etc.). The city periodically tests the Outdoor Warning System.

Click here to hear the evacuation alert tone and siren.  Noise warning - may be loud.

Click here for a map showing the location of these speakers.

Former Emergency Operations Coordinators discuss the benefits of this system to the City.

The County of Orange has the capability to interrupt radio and television broadcasts across the media market to deliver safety instructions. The National Weather Service is the agency that most often activates the EAS system within Orange County. Currently, this system can only refine the alert area to the entire County of Orange, not specifically Laguna Beach.

The MyShake mobile application, managed by the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES), "uses ground motion sensors from across the state to detect earthquakes before humans can feel them and can notify Californians to "Drop, Cover, and Hold On" in advance of an earthquake. (source: earthquake.ca.gov)

More information on the MyShake mobile application can be found here. 

To receive earthquake warnings, individuals and family members can download the MyShake App and ensure phone settings are adjusted to receive emergency alerts, including:

• MyShake App: Free smartphone app that provides iPhone and Android users with audio and visual warnings [magnitude 4.5 or higher and Modified Mercalli Intensity III (weak) shaking]. Available at in the Apple App and Google Play stores;
• Android Earthquake Alerts: Android phones with updated operating systems are automatically subscribed to Android Earthquake Alerts, which uses the same technology as the MyShake App.